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Show Birds' Nest Soup. Old books of travel represent the Asiatics as putting the nests into soups and stews. This is entirely erroneous. er-roneous. The birds which make these nests use, among other materials, long strands of tough, whitish seaweed, sea-weed, the strands forming the outer shell or basket of the nest, and by their stickiness assist In securing it to the rock. By the time the birds have emigrated, emi-grated, these bits of seaweed are washed clean by rains and are dried in the sun. Then Is when they are extracted by Chinese gatherers and made into parcels for sale. They form strips about eight Inches long, somewhat of the appearance o Iceland moss, light, shiny, translucent and of no positive taste. |