. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. IHi" "It;, M 3ft2 EXPLANATORY INDFA'. corn is to uh. It .is a t;ill, unbmiurhe*! plant, grow- ing irregularly .'ind knotttMl at iiitoj vals, and having loaves witii a purpln gloss. The root is the portion that is oaton, and it is sorapod down on a board stuck full of sharp (lint or other stonos, and called hy tiio nanio of Tun
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. IHi" "It;, M 3ft2 EXPLANATORY INDFA'. corn is to uh. It .is a t;ill, unbmiurhe*! plant, grow- ing irregularly .'ind knotttMl at iiitoj vals, and having loaves witii a purpln gloss. The root is the portion that is oaton, and it is sorapod down on a board stuck full of sharp (lint or other stonos, and called hy tiio nanio of Tuniarric. It then looks just like horseradish as brougjit to our tables, but is fillc*! with a poisonous juico. in onlor to extract this juico, the scraped cassava is forced into a long, narrow basket called a niatappi, and made exactly on the principle of the 'Siamese links ' which were once popular na toys. Tlio nm- torial of which it is made is a species of (yaluthca. When the matappi is full, it is f-carcoly 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 \. heavy weight is tied to the lower end. The weight of the stone cau.«?es tho matappi to increase in length, but to diminish in thickness, thus exert- ing a powerful pressuie on the cassava, and squeez- ing out tho juice, which runs through tho interstices, and so down the matappi into the pot. Tho dry Cassava is then removed from tho matappi, rubbed through a basket-work siove, formed into Hat circular cakes about two feet in diameter, and a quarter of an inch in thickness, and bak( d upon a flat, heated stone or plate of iron. Meanw^hile, the poi- sonous juice has been kept out of reach of children, poultry, ikc. and, on being boiled, and flavoured with red-pepper or capsicum, becomes the well-known cassa-. ."AS^AVA runs3. CASIAVA Please note that these images are extracted from scanned pa
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