Show use of earth ar food consumption of 0 earth as food la Is said raid to be common not only in china new caledonia and new guinea but in the malay archipelago as well the testimony of many travelers in the orient Is that the yellow races are especially addicted to the practice in ID java and sumatra the clay used undergoes a preliminary preparation for or consumption being mixed with water reduced to a paste and the S sand and and other hard substances removed the clay is then formed into small cakes or tablets about as thick as a lead pencil and baked in an iron saucepan when tho the tablet emerges from this process it resembles a piece of dried pork the japanese frequently eat small figures clewes roughly modeled from clay which resemble the animals turned out in pastry shoos |