. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history . Zoology; Taxidermy. 382 EXPLANATOEY INDEX. corn is to us. It is a tall, unbranched plant, grow- ing irregularly and knotted at intervals, and having leaves with a purple gloss. The root is the portion that is eaten, and it is scraped down on a board stuck full of sharp flint or other stones, and called by the name of Tumarrie. It then looks just like horseradish a
. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history . Zoology; Taxidermy. 382 EXPLANATOEY INDEX. corn is to us. It is a tall, unbranched plant, grow- ing irregularly and knotted at intervals, and having leaves with a purple gloss. The root is the portion that is eaten, and it is scraped down on a board stuck full of sharp flint or other stones, and called by the name of Tumarrie. It then looks just like horseradish as brought to our tables, but is filled with a poisonous juice. In order to extract this juice, 'the scraped cassava is forced into a long, narrow basket called a matappi, and made exactly on the principle of the ' Siamese- links ' which were once popular as toys. The ma- terial of which it is made is a species of Calathea. When the matappi is full, it is scarcely half its length when empty, but is more than double its thickness. It is then hung to a branch of a tree or to a beam of a house, an earthen pot is placed under it, and a heavy weight is tied to the lower end. The weight of the stone causes the matappi to increase in length, but to diminish in thickness, thus exert- ing a powerful pressure on the cassava, and squeez- ing out the juice, which runs through the interstices, and so down the matappi into the pot. The dry Cassava is then removed from the matappi, rubbed through a basket-work sieve, formed into flat circular cakes about two feet in diameter, and a quarter of an inch in thickness, and baked upon a flat, heated stone or plate of iron. Meanwhile, the poi- sonous juice has been kept out of reach of children, poultry, <fec., and, on being boiled, and flavoured with red-pepper or capsicum, becomes the well-known cassa-. HAS !AVA PRESS, CAB3AVA Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for re
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