The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-03-25

list of Bnshmen's dainties in South
Africa, and roasted spiders are spoken
of as enjoyed by the people of New
l Calidonia-Lalande the French astron-
omer, having been fond OF them-and
/ Humboldt tells US he has seen the CEN
| tipsde eagerly devoured by the children
| in Soath America.
| In Italy coekchafers are candied and
| served up with other confectionery, and
| in Austria large wood ants are served
| up and eaten alive.
The diversity of tastes prevailing in
different parts of the world in regard to
| food would seem o corfirn the proverb
/ that "oue mau's meat is another mans
poison" In very many instances What
! is highly esteemed IN one country Is
abhorred in another.
Milk as an article of food Except for
sucking babies) is loathed by the South
Sea Islanders. Goats have been intro
dused into several of the islands, but
the people deride the settlers with
using the milk, and ask them why they
do not milk their COWS. On the other
hand, dogs and rats are favorite articles
of food with them. As for pork, il Is
on religious grounds that the Jews and
Mohamme6ans abstain from it, as the
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tiaus of the east seem to have nearly an
equal avension to it /; and the like pre-
vailed until lately in Scotland.
Maize or Indian corn has been intro
ducsd into New Zealand by the Mis-
sionaries, and the people cultivate aud
highly esteem it. But their mode OF
preparing it for food is, to civilized
people, most disgusting. They steep
it in water till it is putrid. and then
make il into q kind of porrldge which
emiss an intoieFable stencil.
Human hesh has been, and still IS,
eaten in many parts OF the world, and
thst by the people considerably above
the 10 4est rink Of favsRes, such as
those in the Feejee islands and an In-
dian people called the BATH, who are
said to have a written language. And
even in cannib alism there are great di-
versities-some nations eat their enc
mics and some their friends.
Herodotus relates that a Persian king
asked the Indian soldiers that were in
his service what reward would induce
them to burn the dead bodies of their
friends instead of eating them. They
replied by entresting him not to men
tion anything so shockiug.
On the other hand the New zealand
erS-De1Or0 IQ6lE CODNcEbdbAOus wiz
seemed to have considered that the
proper diet OF mankind Is man-weTe
once in the habit of eating only their
enemies.
Among the Australian savages it is
said that il a mother finds q young
baby troublesome to carry about, she
will eat it (although she will not allov
any one else to do so), under the fUu
persuasion that she merely deferred Its
birth, and that the next child she bears
will be a temperance of the eaten
one. When demonstrated with she will
reply: "Oh, massa, he plenty come
again.
By some Arctic travellers it has been
asserted that the Esquimsux have been
known to eat their sledges when pressed
with hunger; but whenweremember that
these sledges are made OF frozen sal
mon, with skins sewed over them, our
wonder is modified, and, in an extrem-
ity, piece of one sledge, washed down
with whale oil, might not be such
dreadful tit-bit.