It was very small, not raised on posts, but with the earth for a floor, and was built almost entirely of the leaf-stems of the sago-palm, called here “gaba-gaba.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
It was composed of remarkably unbleached sago, which they make from the sago-palm, boiled down with sugar to nearly a jelly. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
The houses were mostly well built, of wooden framework filled in with gaba-gaba (leaf-stems of the sago-palm), but as they had no whitewash, and the floors were of bare black earth like the roads, and generally on the same level, they were extremely damp and gloomy. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The walls are of stone up to three feet high; on this are strong squared posts supporting the roof, everywhere except in the verandah filled in with the leaf-stems of the sago-palm, fitted neatly in wooden owing. ❋ Unknown (2004)
"Yes," was the reply; "there are a great many members of this most useful family, but the one that will interest you most, after the date-and cocoanut-palm, is, I think, the sago-palm." ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)
On pulling near the beach the whole party came down and waded into the water towards us; and, in exchange for a few chisels and files, gave us two baskets, one containing fresh water and the other was full of the fruit of the sago-palm, which grows here in great abundance. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)
Here, the sago-palm, platanus, and tamarind, as well as the flowers and vegetables of the north of Europe, flourish so well as to promise to add permanently to the riches of this rich island. ❋ Maria Graham (N/A)
The trees were now not the lesser growths of bamboo, lime and sago-palm that covered the foot-hills. ❋ Gordon Casserly (N/A)
Only a relative poverty belongs to a clime where the shaking of a sago-palm provides a large family with rations for three months, but the physical energies of Boeroe have ebbed to a point where "desire fails," and the unsatisfactory conditions of life meet for the most part with apathetic acceptance. ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)
In the Moluccos the staple crop is not rice, but sago, which is prepared from the sap of the sago-palm. ❋ P. M. Hough (N/A)
For this purpose a sago-palm is cut down, sago-porridge made, and a wild boar killed. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)
Thereupon the nearest relations bring out the corpse and deposit it in a crouching position, with the knees drawn up to the chin, on some mats and leaves of the sago-palm, which had previously been spread out in the middle of the open space. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)
The staple food of the people is sago, which they extract from the sago-palm; but they also make use of bread-fruit, together with millet, rice, and maize, whenever they can obtain these cereals. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)
The ears were decorated with shreds of the sago-palm or with grey seeds. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)
Among their fruit-trees are the sago-palm, the coco-nut palm, and the bread-fruit tree. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)
The great majority of these groups are within the limits of the sago-palm, bread-fruit, cocoanut, and banana, and these yield not only the food-stuffs of the native people, but the export products as well. ❋ Unknown (1895)
Some of the bodies placed on the rocks are encased in a disused prahu, sometimes only within strips of the sago-palm. ❋ Unknown (1887)
Even the poorest house in the native quarter has a dammar light flaring on a pedestal of the stem of the sago-palm stripped of its sheath. ❋ Unknown (1887)
A tiny fellow can, from the soft sago-palm stem, himself shape and set with sail, and fit with rudder and oars, an excellent miniature of the prahu his father sails. ❋ Unknown (1887)
The sago-palm and a great number of valuable wild fruits are found, such as the famous durian, mangosteen, lansat, rambutan, and others. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)