Besides these three plants, some kinds of yams and taro are deemed fit accompaniments of a dish of bokola. The yams are hung up in the Bure-ni-sa for a certain time, having previously been covered with turmeric, to preserve them, it would seem, from rapid decay : our own sailors effecting the same end by whitewashing the yams when taking them on board.
|auteur =Seemann, 1862. ''An Account of a Mission to the Vitian Or Fijian Islands''.
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