Mr. TALLE: His time and his wife's time in that article is called the sweat equity. Mr. GRIGGS: Look at the fun they had doing it.

Thatched and creepered, the cottage today has externally changed very little.

[A]ll hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays […] And though the 275th lay was what they call a rather long lay, yet it was better than nothing; and if we had a lucky voyage, might pretty nearly pay for the clothing I would wear out on it, not to speak of my three years' beef and board, for which I would not have to pay one stiver.

Manioc gives the highest yield of starch per hectare of any known crop; some 90% of the fabric of the crop can be regarded as potentially fermentable carbohydrate.