 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1873 - Страниц: 508
...abundantly, though in some years there is a great scarcity, and much misery ensues among the poorer natives. The acorns are gathered by the squaws, and are preserved...with twigs and rushes in an oak-tree, and keep the acorus there. The acorns are prepared for eating by grinding them and boiling them with water into... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - 1874 - Страниц: 490
...; in another, to the streams. Their food is composed chiefly of acorns, clover, grass, grass seeds, grasshoppers, horse-chestnuts, fish, game, pine-nuts,...plan is to build a basket with twigs and rushes in an oak tree, and keep the acorns there. The acorns are prepared for eating by grinding them and boiling... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1876 - Страниц: 504
...abundantly, though in some years there is a great scarcity, and much misery ensues among the poorer natives. The acorns are gathered by the squaws, and are preserved...them with water into a thick paste, or by baking them into bread. The oven is a hole in the ground about 18 inches cubic. Eed hot stones are placed in the... | |
 | 1869 - Страниц: 832
...They do not, however, contain, in proportion to the bulk, an equal amount of nutriment with cereals. The acorns are gathered by the squaws, and are preserved in various methods ; the most common plan is to make a basket with twigs and rushes in an oak-tree and keep the acorns there. The acorns are prepared... | |
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The acorns are gathered by the squaws, and are preserved in various methods. The most common plan is to build a basket with twigs and rushes in an oak-tree, and keep the acorns there. The acorns are prepared for eating by grinding them and boiling them... 