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mortar, placed on a flat winnowing tray (Fig. 13), and tossed and caught, 

 until the wind has carried away the lighter husks, thus leaving the 

 grain free. This is placed in a pot, a small quantity of water is added, 

 and the vessel is placed over the fire. Here it is allowed to remain 



FIG. 13. 

 RICE Wl NNOWER. 



only until it begins to boil, when it is placed on the ashes, near enough 

 to the fire to keep it hot. From time to time the woman turns the jar 

 until the contents is cooked through, when each grain stands out free 

 from its fellows. 1 



Other vegetable foods are eaten raw, or are cooked with water and 

 salt, with perhaps the addition of a little meat broth or a sour. 



Small birds and fish are cooked without other treatment than a 

 hasty cleaning; but the flesh of larger fowls, deer, and pig is generally 

 cut into small cubes and cooked with condiments in a jar or small 

 Chinese caldron. Birds are sometimes prepared by placing them on a 

 spit, covering them with green banana leaves, and suspending them 



1 This is the usual way of preparing rice throughout the archipelago. 



