 I have been informed that the best trees will yield at the- rate of one hundred pints in the twenty-four hours. The pith or farinaceous part of the trunk of old trees, is said to be equal to the best Sago ; the natives make it into bread, and boil it...  Journal - Стр. 4731841Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1873 - Страниц: 612
...twenty-four hours. The pith, or fari' naceous part of the trunk of old trees, is said to be equal to ' the best sago ; the natives make it into bread and boil it into ' gruel.' Thus bread and wine may be said to be the fruit of this beautiful palm. We cannot fail to... | |
 | William Roxburgh - 1832 - Страниц: 906
...twenty-four hours. The pith or farinaceous part of the trunk of old trees, is said to be equal to the best Sago; the natives make it into bread, and boil...part of the diet of those people; and during the late famine, they suffered little while those trees lasted. I have reason to believe this substance to be... | |
 | 1845 - Страниц: 678
...twenty-four hours. The pith or farinaceous part of the trunk of old trees, is said to be equal to the best Sago ; the natives make it into bread, and boil...of the diet of those people ; and during the late famine, they suffered little while those trees lasted. I have reason to believe this substance to be... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - Страниц: 1070
...toddy, or palm-wine. The pith, or farinaceous part, of the trunk of old trees is said to be equal to the best sago ; the natives make it into bread, and boil it into thick gruel. CASAN is one of the busiest cities of European Russia. It has a great cloth manufactory, in which 1000... | |
 | John Lindley - 1853 - Страниц: 1066
...twenty-four hours. The pith, or farinaceous part of the trunk of old trees, is said to be equal to the best Sago ; the natives make it into bread, and boil...thick gruel ; these form a great part of the diet of the people whose country it inhabits, and during famines they suffer little while those trees last.... | |
 | John Lindley - 1853 - Страниц: 1076
...twenty-four hours. The pith, or farinaceous part of the trunk of old trees, is said to be equal to the best Sago ; the natives make it into bread, and boil...thick gruel ; these form a great part of the diet of the people whose country it inhabits, and during famines they suffer little while those trees last.... | |
 | John Forbes Royle - 1855 - Страниц: 446
...pints of toddy or palm wine in the twenty-four hours. The pith, or farinaceous part, is equal to the best sago. The natives make it into bread, and boil it into thick gruel. EJOO OR GOMUTO FIBRE. 99 It is the Kittul of the Cingalese ; of which, according to Knox, " the inside... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1857 - Страниц: 672
...the twenty-four hours. The pith, or farinaceous part of the trunk of the old trees is equal to the best sago ; the natives make it into bread, and boil it into thick gruel. I have reason to believe this substance to be highly nutritious. I have eaten the gruel " At this point... | |
 | Dudley Costello - 1858 - Страниц: 354
...the twenty-four hours. The pith, or farinaceous part of the trunk of the old trees, is equal to the best sago ; the natives make it into bread, and boil it into thick gruel. I have reason to believe this substance to be highly nutritious. I have eaten the gruel " At this point... | |
 | Colesworthey Grant - 1862 - Страниц: 222
...Dr. Roxburgh — " The pith or farinaceous part of the trunk of old trees is said to be equal to the best sago. The natives make it into bread and boil...thick gruel ; these form a great part of the diet of these people ; and during the late famine they suffered little while these trees lasted."* The Phccnix... | |
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