1.   Typically, only banana trunks that remain intact throughout the winter will bear fruit.

2.   People who do not have the money build their own rafts by tying together several banana tree trunks.

3.   Rwandan troops took journalists to the island by boat on Wednesday and on the way discovered two men floating on a raft of banana tree trunks.

4.   Three small children, one clinging to a floating banana tree trunk, splashed in the river around her.

5.   Two more Hutu soldiers were killed Wednesday when they dove off their makeshift raft of banana tree trunks and refused to surrender to Rwandan troops in a patrol boat.