Frank Coffee

Name: Forty Years On The Pacific — Copra, Sugar, and Other Products
Author: Frank Coffee

Forty Years On The Pacific — Copra… (1920)

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“Forty Years On The Pacific — Copra, Sugar, and Other Products”, published in 1920, is a work by Frank Coffee. It explores elements such as copra, cocoanut and Fiji.

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Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Copra… (1920)

“ THE staple product of the South Sea Islands is copra. Probably not one person in four knows what it is. First of all, then, let me explain that copra is the dried flesh of the cocoanut. This product yields an oil which enters very largely into the manufacture of soap. It is also used in the preparation of vegetable butter for cooking, and, owing to the increasing scarcity of animal fats, the demand is a very large and growing one. During the Great War, copra was exported in huge quantities to make glycerine for munitions. Another product, used by confectioners, is known as desiccated cocoanut. ”

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Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Copra… (1920)

“ Of course, Fiji is not the only place in the islands where sugar is extensively grown. In the Hawaiian Islands are some of the finest plantations, with splendidly equipped mills that rank among the best in the world. ”

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Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Copra… (1920)

“ The natives grind the sandalwood and use it for scenting the cocoanut oil with which they paint their bodies. Commercially, it is used in the manufacture of furniture, and it is also exported to China, where it is used for temple incense.
Rubber, cocoa and coffee are successfully grown in the Samoan and Tongan Islands, while in Fiji the most important planting industry is sugar. It may be said to be the mainstay of the group, and therefore it deserves almost as full a reference as I have made to copra. ”

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Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Copra… (1920)

“ Fiji is to be numbered among the finest sugar-producing countries in the world, with an annual output of about 110,000 tons. The Colonial Sugar Refining Company of Sydney was the first to embark on the industry on a large scale, though others had started in a smaller way before them. In 1917 there were over 7,000 men engaged, while the mills, in which the cane from nearly 40,000 acres is crushed, are as scientifically equipped as those in any other part of the world. ”

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Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Copra… (1920)

“ Even the leaves possess digestive properties, as one will find by wrapping chops or steaks between them and allowing them to remain over-night. Boarding-houses in the islands always carry a supply. Poultry hung among the limbs of the tree becomes quite tender. ”

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Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Copra… (1920)

“ A fly also attacks the leaves of the tree, which it dries up, causing the fruit to fall off before fully grown. But the most serious enemy to the cocoanut is the land crab, which is from one to two feet long, and weighs from three to five pounds, possessing strength enough to break a man's wrist. ”

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Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Copra… (1920)

“ A hole is bored into the bark of the tree and from this small hole drops of a gummy liquid will run into a vessel. It is then poured onto sheets of glass or other smooth surface, and allowed to remain until it hardens, when it is stripped off and grated into a fine powder. ”

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Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Copra… (1920)

“ The native Fijians, who are not overfond of work, were supplanted first by Tongans, then by Solomon Islanders, and as a last resource, by coolies from East India, who proved to be the most satisfactory. ”

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Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Copra… (1920)

“ The actual process of extracting the juice from the cane, and manufacturing therefrom the raw sugar, which is sent to Australia or New Zealand to be refined, and made into the article familiar to all, calls for a high degree of skill in order that the best and most profitable results may be obtained. The Colonial Sugar Company is the principal concern in Fiji, but there are others also, including the Vancouver-Fiji Company, owned by the late Mr. ”

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