OCR Text |
Show Malay Clay Caters. Consumption of earth as food Is common not only In Cnlna, Now Caledonia Cale-donia and Now Guinea, hut In the Malay Archipelago as well. Tho testimony testi-mony of many travelers in tho Orient ,s that tho yellow races aro especially addicted to tho practice. In Java and Sumatra tho clay used undergoes a preliminary preparation, being mlxod with water, reduced to a paoto and the sand and other hard substances ro-moved. ro-moved. Tho clay Is then formed Into small Cakes or tablets about as thick ns a lead pencil and baked in nn Iron saucepan. When tho tablet emergos from this process It resembles n pleco of dried pork. Tho Javaneso frequently frequent-ly cat small figures roughly modeled from clay, which resembles animals or Uttlo mon turned out In pastry shops. |