 | Henry Walter Bates - 1863 - 482 lehte
...canoe and mashed with wooden prongs ; but sometimes naked Indians and children jump into the mass and tread it down, besmearing themselves with yolk and...finished, water is poured into the canoe, and the fatty mess then left for a few hours to be heated by the sun, on which the oil separates and rises to the... | |
 | Henry Walter Bates - 1863 - 452 lehte
...heated by the sun, on which the oil separates and rises to the surface. The floating oil is afterwards skimmed off with long spoons, made by tying large mussel-shells to the end of rods, and purified over the fire in copper kettles. The destruction of turtle eggs every year by these proceedings... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1866 - 494 lehte
...sometimes naked Indians and children jump into the mass, and tread it down, besmearing themselves with the yolk, and making about as filthy a scene as can well...separates, and rises to the surface. The floating oil is afterwards skimmed off with long spoons, made by tying large mussel-shells to the end of rods, and... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1866 - 488 lehte
...sometimes naked Indians and children jump into the mass, and tread it down, besmearing themselves with the yolk, and making about as filthy a scene as can well...mass then left for a few hours to be heated by the Bun, on which the oil separates, and rises to the surface. The floating oil is afterwards skimmed off... | |
 | Henry Walter Bates - 1880 - 176 lehte
...canoe ¡and mashed with wooden prongs ; but sometimes naked Indians and children jump into the mass and tread it down, besmearing themselves with yolk and...made by tying large mussel-shells to the end of rods, and purified over the fire in copper kettles. The destruction of turtle-eggs every year by these proceedings... | |
 | Henry Walter Bates - 1880 - 162 lehte
...us filthy a scene as can well bo imagined. This being finished, water is poured into the came, ana the fatty mass then left for a few hours to be heated by tbe sun, on which the oil «épurâtes and rises to the surface. The floating oil is afterward skimmed... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - 1917 - 962 lehte
...canoe and mashed with wooden prongs ; but sometimes naked Indians and children jump into the mass and tread it down, besmearing themselves with yolk, and...afterward skimmed off with long spoons made by tying large mussel shells to the ends of long rods, and purified over the fire in copper kettles (HWB, 313). The... | |
 | Hans Gadow - 1909 - 696 lehte
...canoe and mashed with wooden prongs ; but sometimes naked Indians and children jump into the mass and tread it down, besmearing themselves with yolk, and making about as filthy a scone as can well be imagined. This being finished, water is poured into the canoe, and the fatty mass... | |
 | Henry Walter Bates - 2004 - 452 lehte
...canoe and mashed with wooden prongs ; but sometimes naked Indians and children jump into the mass and tread it down, besmearing themselves with yolk and...finished, water is poured into the canoe, and the fatty mess then left for a few hours to be heated by the sun, on which the oil separates and rises to the... | |
 | Don Moll, Edward O. Moll - 2004 - 420 lehte
...canoe and mashed with wooden prongs; but sometimes naked Indians and children jump into the mass and tread it down besmearing themselves with yolk and...making about as filthy a scene as can well be imagined [fig. 5.17]. This being finished, water is poured into the canoe, and the fatty mess then left for... | |
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The egg, it may be here mentioned, has a flexible or leathery shell ; it is quite round, and somewhat larger than a hen's egg. The whole heap is thrown into an empty canoe and mashed with wooden prongs ; but sometimes naked Indians and children jump into... 