 | Great Britain - 1830 - 484 pages
...ages and stations. There is little else to be obtained in all the inns of the country but rice »nd sugar ; it is the common nourishment of travellers....a sum of money with which they" must buy sugar and sugar-cane, and they are compelled by law to eat a certain quantity daily. This is to preserve the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1830 - 482 pages
...cucumbers, radishes, artichokes, the grain of the lotus, and the thick fleshy leaves of the aloe. They I'm« nothing is so nourishing as sugar. This opinion of...pomp and show, are allowed a sum of money with which the; must buy sugar and sugar-cane, and they are compelled by law to eat a certain quantity daily.... | |
 | 1830 - 480 pages
...nourishing as sugar. This opinion of its fattening properties has occasioned a whimsical law. The hodyguard of the king, selected for the purposes of pomp and...show, are allowed a sum of money with which they must huy sugar and sugar-cane, and. they are compelled hy law to eat a certain quantity daily. This is to... | |
 | 1834 - 222 pages
...the time of cutting the canes, and noted the difference of their looks before the crop begins, anil a month or six weeks after." The Cochin Chinese consume...a sum of money with which they must buy sugar and sugar-cane, and they are compelled by iaw to eat a certain quantity daily. This is to preserve the... | |
 | Art - 1839 - 352 pages
...whimsical law in Cochin China. What is that, mamma? MRS. F. The body guard of the king, selected for purposes of pomp and show, are allowed a sum of money, with which they must buy sugar and sugar-canos, and they are compelled, by law, to eat a certain quantity daily. This is to preserve the... | |
 | 1844 - 836 pages
...so nourishing as sngar, hence the whunsical 'aw established for a portion of their military force. The body-guard of the king, selected for the purposes...and show, are allowed a sum of money with which they jnust buy sugar and sugar-canes, and they are compelled by law to eat a certain quantity doily. This... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Commercial products - 1849 - 164 pages
...Chinese not only preserve in sugar all their fruits, but even the greater part of their legum inous vegetables, gourds, cucumbers, radishes, artichokes,...a sum of money with which they must buy sugar and sugarcane, and they are compelled by law to eat a certain quantity daily. This is to preserve the embonpoint... | |
 | Geography - 1855 - 358 pages
...patch of sugar-cane, exclusive of what the jaggry may sell for, can only be known to ^uch as may nave observed them in the time of cutting the canes, and...a sum of money with which they must buy sugar and sugar-cane, and they are compelled by law to eat a certain quantity daily. This is to [ireserve the... | |
 | Medicine - 1867 - 592 pages
...They fancy nothing is so nourishing as sugar. The body-guard of the king, selected lor the purpose of pomp and show, are allowed a sum of money with...by law to eat a certain quantity daily. This is to promote their embonpoint and good looks, and they are honoured by a near approach to the person of... | |
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There is little else to be obtained in all the inns of the country but rice and sugar; it is the common nourishment of travellers. The Cochin Chinese not only preserve in sugar all their fruits, but even the greater part of their leguminous vegetables,... 