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| 32 | 179 | One type of View more quotes about palm">palm, the fan palm, more than twenty feet high, which spreads its leaves in the form of an opened fan, is an excellent source of pure water, as much as a liter of such water being found, almost as though cupped, at the base of each leaf's stem. |
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| 32 | 176 | There is an incredible variety of trees in the rain forest, how many I cannot conjecture. |
| 32 | 177 | There are, however, more than fifteen hundred varieties and types of palm alone. |
| 32 | 178 | Some of these palms have leaves which are twenty feet in length. |
| 32 | 179 | One type of palm, the fan palm, more than twenty feet high, which spreads its leaves in the form of an opened fan, is an excellent source of pure water, as much as a liter of such water being found, almost as though cupped, at the base of each leaf's stem. |
| 32 | 180 | Another useful source of water is the liana vine. |
| 32 | 181 | One makes the first cut high, over one's head, to keep the water from being withdrawn by contraction and surface adhesion up the vine. |
| 32 | 182 | The second cut, made a foot or so from the ground, gives a vine tube which, drained, yields in the neighborhood of a liter of water. |