Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . her rebellioushair is just falling away from the confining comb ; her brown face, glowing with perspiration,gives the lie to our ideas of In-dian laziness. Meanwhile, MissLizia is rubbing the grated massthrough a basket-work sieve, toremove the larger fragments ofwoody fibre ; then the mandi-oca is ready for the next stage—straining in the tipiti. Thisis a long,narrow bag,or ratherpipe, wovenfrom stripsof palm- fibre; the^ strips run di-^g agon allyaround the^^ft bag, so that straining the Mandioca. thc CaOacitV can be increased by simply forcing the ends
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . her rebellioushair is just falling away from the confining comb ; her brown face, glowing with perspiration,gives the lie to our ideas of In-dian laziness. Meanwhile, MissLizia is rubbing the grated massthrough a basket-work sieve, toremove the larger fragments ofwoody fibre ; then the mandi-oca is ready for the next stage—straining in the tipiti. Thisis a long,narrow bag,or ratherpipe, wovenfrom stripsof palm- fibre; the^ strips run di-^g agon allyaround the^^ft bag, so that straining the Mandioca. thc CaOacitV can be increased by simply forcing the ends together, caus-ing the elastic sides to bulge out; in this shortened conditionit is filled. Now, if it is hung up and drawn out forcibly, themass within will be compressed and the juice will run outthrough the interstices ; in the same manner a farmers wifestrains whey from a cloth bag. To increase the pressure, alever is passed through a loop in the lower end of the tipiti;a heavy stone may be attached to the lever, but our brown. AN INDIAN VILLAGE. 383 operator finds it more convenient to sit on the end of thepole ; the juice streams out and flows into a pan below.* A small portion of the poison still remains, but it is veryvolatile, and will be removed by the roasting process. Thefiirno on which this is done is a thick earthen pan, six feet indiameter, supported by a circle of abobc wall, with an open-ing on one side, so as to form a fire-place. Francisca has
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