The Sex Lives of Cannibals vocabulary

the calm was about to break at last, and in another hour or so the thirsty, sandy soil would be drenched with the long-expected rain, and the drooping palms and pandanus trees wave their wearied branches to the cooling trade-wind once more.

Louis Becke. The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton (1902)

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Around us, entire extended families were gathered on mats weaved from pandanus leaves.

J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.35 (2004)

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the young girls were employed in pressing into muscle-shells the juice of the Pandanus, which they presented to us, with a sort of sweet-meat called Mogan, prepared from the same fruit; the flavour of both is very agreeable.

Otto von Kotzebue. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1.