Show malay clay eaters consumption of earth as food Is common not only in china now new cale donla and ananew anew guinea but in the I 1 malay archipelago as well we ll 11 the testimony moni of ciany trai travelers elerson in the orient a that the yellow races rabes ar addicted pr acte 1 in java and sumatra the clay used used undergoes a preliminary preparation being mixed with watt reduced to a paste and the band and other hard substances re moved the clay Is then formed into small cakes or table tablets ts about aa as illicit as a lead pencil and biked baked in ancron saucepan when the tablet emerges from this process it resembles a piece of dried pork the javanese frequently oat eat small agu raf roughly modeler modeled from clay which resembles animals or little men turned out in pastry shops |