"Daniel H" wrote in message
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he may be in Singapore (".sg")

Yes, I am in Singapore.
This regioon, SE Asia and East Asia uses bamboo for pratically everything
in the "good old days", Fishing rod, water buckets, spears, blowpipes,
flutes, basket, twines, fish traps, cooking pots, Bows and arrows and the
arrow heads.and as food . Bamboo hardened by heating in fire is almost as
hard as steel and make good arrow and spear heads. ( bamboo (skin) is so
hard that it can throw sparks when hit by a parang) A house may be
pratically all made of bamboos, the pillars, the walls, the floors, the
roof, the table and chairs and....(sorry, got carried away by the "good old
days")


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