A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India: Cabbage to Cyperus |
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Page 506 - ... have examined a multitude both of the adults and of young taken from the nests, collected in the Nicobars and preserved in spirit, all of which were of the same species. Still, what appears to be C.
Page 456 - He carries home his net and his string of fish on a yoke, or pings, formed of a cocoa-nut stalk. When he is thirsty he drinks of the fresh juice of the young nut ; when he is hungry he eats its soft kernel. If he has a mind to be merry, he sips a glass of arrack, distilled from the fermented juice of the palm, and dances to music of rude cocoa-nut castanets ; if he be weary he quaffs ' toddy,' or the unfermented juice, and he flavours his curry with vinegar made from this toddy.
Page 313 - The dry bark is crushed into small pieces, but not powdered, and is put into wooden casks, where it is macerated in the cold with very dilute hydrochloric acid. The liquor is then run off into wooden vessels, and mixed with an excess of a strong solution of caustic soda. A precipitate forms, which is collected on calico filters, and well washed with water. The precipitate is then dried at a. gentle heat, and powdered. It constitutes the crude febrifuge, which. is next submitted to a process of purification....
Page 489 - In the French colonies, where coffee is more used than in the English, as well as in Turkey, where it is the principal beverage, not only the gravel, but the gout, is scarcely known.
Page 161 - C.) and in a shorter time (5 minutes at most); (3) the filtered juice differs chemically from pepsin in that it gives no precipitate on boiling, and further that it is precipitated by mercuric chloride, iodine, and all the mineral acids; (4) it resembles pepsin in being precipitated by neutral acetate of lead, and not giving a precipitate with sulphate of copper and perchloride of iron.
Page 425 - The young cocoanut tree requires manure, such as putrid fish and stimulating compounds, containing a portion of salt. On the Coromandel Coast the natives put a handful of salt below each nut on planting it. The chief natural enemy of this tree is a species of elephant-beetle, which begins by nibbling the leaves into the shape of a fan ; it then perforates the central pithy fibre, so that the leaf snaps off, and lastly, it descends into the folds of the upper shoot, where it bores itself a nest, and...
Page 426 - The thick pericarp or outer wall of the fruit yields the valuable COIR FIBRE of commerce. The SHEATHS of the leaves are used to wrap up articles, and as paper to write upon.
Page 253 - Firm, breaking with a granular fracture, yellow, having an agreeable honey-like odour. Not unctuous to the touch ; does not melt under 140° ; yields nothing to cold rectified spirit, but is entirely soluble in oil of turpentine. Boiling water, in which it has been agitated, when cooled, is not rendered blue by iodine.
Page 208 - 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 ; these form a great part of the diet of those people ; and during the late famine, they suffered little while those trees lasted.
Page 632 - The seeds, like those of the other cucurbitaceous fruits, contain much farinaceous matter blended with a large portion of mild oil ; the natives dry and grind them into a meal, which they employ, as an article of diet ; they also express a mild oil from them, which they use in food, and to burn in their lamps.