Palm-kernel

I never saw more than four men at work amongst the gins, and then half a dozen squatters were chatting with and staring at them, whilst a woman or two sat by with baskets of popped maize and boiled palm-kernels to recruit exhausted nature.

The country produces in abundance palm oil, palm-kernels, and ground-nut, perhaps the greatest staples of West African commerce, and abounds with sugarcane, pepper, coffee, ginger, gum, and ivory.

They are papers concerning the brig’s cargo, crew, and the like. I find she’s a trifle bigger than I thought her—three tons under two hundred. She’s chokeful of palm-kernels, and I should say her carge^([sic]) alone is not worth less than £4,000.