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Show Earth as Food. In Now Caledonia, New Guinea and In tho Malay archipelago tho consumption consump-tion of earth as food la comparatively common. In Java and Sumatra a certain cer-tain kind of clay undorgoea a preliminary prelimi-nary preparation, being mlxsd with water, reduced to a pasto, and tho sand and othor hard subs,tancos ro-moved. ro-moved. Tho clny Is then mado into small tablets or cakes about as thick as a lead pencil and baked In an Iron saucepan. When tho process Is over tho cako ot earth rcsoinblos n; pleco of dried pork. Tho Javanese oat small figures roughly modeled from clay, mado to Imitate animals, blrdu or men. |