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Show Gathering Wapatoo Root On Wapatoo Island 60 yenrs ago, in the fall of the year, the last of the Multnomahs harvested their strange crop. To reach the finest plants, productive pro-ductive of the largest tubers, the laughing, gossiping squaws waded breast-deep In the bright waters, says Nature Magazine. They drew behind them a small canoe, and with their bare, brown feet they freed the roots of the wapntoo. j Up from the ooze they plucked It, with Its leaves so like a broad arrowhead, arrow-head, and as they stripped It of its tubers they cast these into the canoe nntll the craft was heav, laden. Of the tubers they made a kind of flour I that was stored for winter, and, too, j they feasted on the fresh wapatoo. i boiled or roasted. |