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South Sea Arrowroot (Tacca pinnatifida) is a perennial herb of the natural order Taccaceae native to the East Indies and Society Islands. It has a tuberous root stock, which like that of the potato and rice is rich in starch. The leaves are large and cut into oval segments, the flowers are purplish in colour, funnel-shaped and clustered in a dense umbel and succeeded by large, pear-shaped, ribbed fruits. Strips of the leaves are plaited into hats, but mainly the plant is grown for the starch which is obtained by rasping the tubers and macerating the material in water, the resulting deposit being a fine form of arrowroot.
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The Tahiti apple or Otaheite apple (Spondias dulcis) is a tree of the family Anacardiaceae native to the Society Islands, Friendly Islands and Fiji. The leaves are divided into elliptic leaflets arranged featherwise with rounded teeth. The flowers are small, yellow-green coloured clustered flowers followed by an edible fruit which tastes like pineapple, and looks like a large, golden-yellow coloured plum containing a stone covered with hooked bristles.
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John Williams was an american clergyman. He was born in 1644 and died in 1739. He became pastor at Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1686. He was carried away captive to Montreal by Indians with his family in 1704. He wrote 'The Redeemed Captive', a very popular account of his
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John Williams was an English missionary. He was born in 1791 at Tottenham, near London and died in 1839. In 1816 he was accepted by the London Missionary Society as a missionary to the Society Islands in the Pacific. Here Williams introduced a code of laws, encouraged the cultivation of the sugar cane and tobacco, and instructed the natives in printing and in house building. This missionary work was also extended to the Cook Islands, to Rarotonga (Harvey Island), to Samoa, and to the Friendly Islands. He was killed on the cannibal island of Enomanga (New Hebrides). He wrote 'Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands' in 1837.
John Williams is an American Oscar-winning composer and pianist. He was born in 1932. His best known for composing the music for the film 'Jaws' and also the 'Star Wars' films.
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The Society Islands are a group of mainly mountainous islands in French Polynesia. They consist of two main groups: the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands.
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