LSE4329123 Planting borassus palm trees in Laos and collecting palm wine, which is none other than the seve of the incise tree, the liquid is collected in a bamboo, and the trunk is transformed into a real scale, by means of small rattan stripes, in which the tips of bamboo are recorded as scales. Engraving to illustrate the voyage of exploration in Indochina, by Francis Garnier, lieutenant de Vaissseau, in 1866-1868, published in ??????Le tour du monde??????????1870-1871, edited by Edouard Charton, edition Hachette, Paris. Selva Collection. by Unknown Artist, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Planting borassus palm trees in Laos and collecting palm wine, which is none other than the seve of the incise tree, the liquid is collected in a bamboo, and the trunk is transformed into a real scale, by means of small rattan stripes, in which the tips of bamboo are recorded as scales. Engraving to illustrate the voyage of exploration in Indochina, by Francis Garnier, lieutenant de Vaissseau, in 1866-1868, published in ??????Le tour du monde??????????1870-1871, edited by Edouard Charton, edition Hachette, Paris. Selva Collection.); Photo by Leonard de Selva.