Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12885

c10.12885

1522.—"Their bread (in Tidore) they make of the wood of a certain tree like a palm-tree, and they make it in this way. They take a piece of this wood, and extract from it certain long black thorns which are situated there; then they pound it, and make bread of it which they call *sagu*. They make provision of this bread for their sea voyages."—*Pigafetta*, Hak. Soc. p. 136. This is a bad description, and seems to refer to the *Sagwire*, not the true sago-tree.