 | William Phillips, Samuel Latham Mitchill - Mineralogy - 1818 - 364 pages
...New Caledonia either eat it alone, or mingle it with their food. Humboldt says that the Ctomaques, a savage race, inhabiting the banks of the Oronoko,...are almost entirely supported during three months in the year, by eating a species of steatite, which they first slightly bake, and then moisten with... | |
 | William Phillips - Mineralogy - 1823 - 558 pages
...the inhabitants of New Caledonia either eat it alone, or mingle it with their food. Humboldt says, that the Otomaques, a savage race inhabiting the banks...are almost entirely supported during three months in the year, by eating a species of steatite, which they first slightly bake, and then moisten with... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...assures us, that the Otoiruuks, a savage race, who live on the banks of the Orinoco, are almost wholly supported^ during three months of the year, by eating a species of this article; while Mr Golberry, the African traveller, asserts, that th« Negroes near the mouth of... | |
 | William Bingley - 1831 - 314 pages
...that the Otomacks, a savage race of people, who live on the banks of the Orinoco, are almost wholly supported, during three months of the year, by eating a species of steatite, or potter's clay, which they first slightly bake, and then moisten with water. M. Golberry says that... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 626 pages
...their food. Hutnboldt says, that the Itomaques, a savage race, inhabiting the banks of the Orinoco, are almost entirely supported, during three months of the year, by eating this variety of talc, which they first slightly bake, and then moisten with water. The varieties known... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...then- food. Humboldt says, that the Itomaqucs, a savage race, inhabiting the bonks of the Orinoco, are almost entirely supported, during three months of the year, by eating this variety of talc, which they first slightly bake, and then moisten with water. The varieties known... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 620 pages
...their food. Humboldt says, that the Itomaques, a savage race, inhabiting the banks of the Orinoco, are almost entirely supported, during three months of the year, by eating this variety of talc, which they first slightly bake, and then moisten with water. The varieties known... | |
 | Henry Sowerby - Mineralogy - 1850 - 410 pages
...the inhabitants of New Caledonia either eat it alone, or mingle it with their food. Humboldt says, that the Otomaques, a savage race inhabiting the banks...first slightly bake, and then moisten with water." Potstone, another variety of Soapstone, has, as far back as the time of Pliny, been formed into vessels... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 618 pages
...their food. Humboldt says, that the Itomaques, a savage race, inhabiting the banks of the Orinoco, are almost entirely supported, during three months of the year, by eating this variety of talc, which they first slightly bake, and then moisten with water. The varieties known... | |
 | Henry William Bristow - Mineralogy - 1861 - 510 pages
...the skin; and Humboldt states that the Otomaques, a savage race, inhabiting the banks of the Oronoco, are almost entirely supported during three months...first slightly bake, and then moisten with water. The material generally used for ornamental carvings in China, is the well-known Chinese Steatite in... | |
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Shaw, use steatite in their baths instead of soap; and it is confidently asserted that the inhabitants of New Caledonia either eat it alone, or mingle it with their food. Humboldt says, that the... 