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Show Ptfuliarities uf tlie Appetite. Wallace says that some of the Pacific islanders will never eat hens' eggs, considering them unfit for food; but they sell them to sailors. The Esquimaux will not eat vegetables, vege-tables, considering it a perverted taste that will indulge in such stufl'. The New Guinea natives refuse to eat bread and biscuits, and abhor sugar. On the contrary, such tribeB enjoy ants, grasshoppers, monkeys andsnakes. Those Malayans who collect col-lect edible birds' nests never can be induced to eat of them. African tribes that keep most cattle never taste milk. Salt is where all the world find kinship, for no nation or tribe but craves it, and needs it. On the whole we shall have to go back to the old Latin saw for an explanation of such diversities: ; "There is no accounting for tastes." |