SC - Hollands

[Decker, Terry D.]

Actually, I'd really rather we do pina coladas!

Kiri (joining Selene at that rock)

Susan Fox-Davis wrote:

> Great!  Now we need to document pineapple and rum so we can serve Mai Tai's next
> war!
>
> Where was that rock again?
>
> Selene
>
> Daniel Phelps wrote:
>
> > Was written:
> >
> > Coconuts in the New World occurred only on
> > >the Pacific coast having been carried there by winds and currents and not
> > >yet having been domesticated.
> >
> > Odd historical note regards Palm Beach, Florida.  Legend has it called so
> > because coconut palms grew there.  Legend says that a cargo vessel with
> > coconuts aboard sank off shore and the coconuts were washed ashore and grew.
> > This occurred in either the late 16th or 17th century if I remember
> > correctly what I read.  Coconuts were apparently available in Colonial
> > America by the way.
> >
> > Rosengarten writes regards the coconuts origin that it clearly orginated in
> > the Pacific Ocean but that there are two theories; an Old World and a New
> > World one.  It is apparently clear, according to him, that it was well
> > established on the Pacific coast of Panama before the first Spanish
> > explorers got there.  Paleobotanical evidence of fossil coconuts from the
> > late Tertiary exists in New Zealand.  The strongest theory in his estimation
> > postulates a western Pacific or eastern  Indian Ocean origin with a gradual
> > east and west spread either naturally via ocean currents or by man.  Vasco
> > da Gama in 1498 found it in Mozambique in East Africa.  According to
> > Rosegarten, "It is generally agreed that the coconut was not found in the
> > Atlantic Ocean basin until the Portuguese brought it there after 1500, when
> > they introduced the palm to West Africa and Brazil.  In the early sixteenth
> > century the Spanish carried it to the Caribbean."  He further states that it
> > was rapidly spread throughout the Caribbean and South America.
> >
> > Daniel Raoul
> >
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