Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    With the surplus they make a syrup and a coarse sugar, with which they fatten their animals. The people them- selves also eat it in time of dearth. The syrup, which they call goula, nearly resembles treacle, but it is rather thicker and has a more agreeable taste. These islanders are remarkably cleanly : but, according to the universal practice of the oriental nations, both sexes chew betel, and the areca and lime which they mix with it corrode their teeth in an unequal manner. When they would smoke, they roll up a bit of tobacco and put it at the end of a tube made of palm-leaf, about six inches long and of the size of a goose- quill. As the quantity of tobacco held