Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1911 — Man and the Cocoanut. [ARTICLE]

Man and the Cocoanut.

According to the opinion of the old historians and the commentators of the Koran, God created from the remainder of the clay of which Adam was made the Kullserr, or cocoa tree, which is found in abundance in the Indian Islands. It produces a nut which Is brought to Anatolia and Roomili. The Interior and oily part Is nourishing and fortifying food. The shell is worked Into spoons and cups of the size of a man’s head. It Is a round, black nut, on which all the parts of a man’s head may be seen, mouth, nose, eyebrows, eyes, hair and whiskers, before it was formed from Adam’s clay. A wonderful sight! From the same clay God created also the Wakwak, found In India, the fruit of which resembles a man’s head, which shaken by the wind emits the sound of Wakwak. Finally was cheated also the palm tree from the remainder of Adam’s clay at Kufa, near the water Tlnnoor. This is said to be the cause why the palm trees of Kufa, Medaln and Ommaun are straight and upright, like the stature of a man. If you cut Its branches, it does not only no harm to it, but grows even more, like the hair and beard of men; but if you cut off the head of the palm tree, It gives a reddish juice like blood, and the tree perishes like a man whose head is cut off.—Evlla Effendi: “Travels.”