 | William Phillips, Samuel Latham Mitchill - Mineralogy - 1818 - 364 pages
...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 Water. BKONZITE. The colour of this mineral is brown, having frequently the aspect of bronze ; its structure... | |
 | William Bingley - Commercial products - 1821 - 308 pages
...polished, and then coloured by means of certain metallic solutions. 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 firpt slightly bake, and then moisten with water. M. Golberry says that... | |
 | William Phillips - Mineralogy - 1823 - 558 pages
...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...slightly bake, and then moisten with water. 2. POTsTONE. Topfctein W. Talc ollaire H. Pierre ollaire Br. Serpentine ollairoi Bl. This substance is found massive;... | |
 | Robert Taylor (incumbent of Hartlepool.) - Science - 1825 - 704 pages
...soap. Humboldt says that the Otomaques, a savage race inhabiting the banks of the Oronoko, are almost supported during three months of the year, by eating...they first slightly bake and then moisten with water. The New Caledonians are said also to eat it. Lemnian earth is of a yellowish grey and white colour,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 622 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... | |
 | 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 - 392 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... | |
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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... 