 | John Lewis Burckhardt - Arabian Peninsula - 1831 - 408 pages
...are only eaten by the poorest beggars. The Arabs, in preparing locusts as an article of food, throw them alive into boiling water, with which a good deal...cleansed from the salt and perfectly dried ; after which process whole sacks are filled with them by the Bedouins. They are sometimes eaten broiled in butter... | |
 | Religion - 1834 - 810 pages
...are only eaten by the poorest beggars. The Arabs, in preparing locusts as an article of food, throw them alive into boiling water, with which a good deal...cleansed from the salt and perfectly dried ; after which process whole sacks are filled with them by the Bedouins. They are sometimes eaten broiled in butter;... | |
 | Theology - 1834 - 808 pages
...are only eaten by the poorest beggars. The Arabs, in preparing locusts as an article of food, throw them alive into boiling water, with which a good deal...after a few minutes they are taken out, and dried in ihe sun ; the head, feet, and wings are then torn off, the bodies are cleansed from the salt and perfectly... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 646 pages
...are only eaten by the poorest beggars. The Arabs, in preparing locusts as an article of food, throw them alive into boiling water, with which a good deal...cleansed from the salt, and perfectly dried; after which process whole sacks are filled with them by the Bedouitis. They are sometimes eaten broiled in butter,... | |
 | James Covel (jr.) - Bible - 1843 - 548 pages
...are only eaten by the poorest beggars. The Arabs, in preparing locusts as an article of food, throw them alive into boiling water, with which a good deal...cleansed from the salt and perfectly dried ; after which process, whole sacks are filled with them by the Bedouins. They are sometimes eaten broiled in butter... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 734 pages
...sacks with the mixture of a little salt. Another way is to throw them alive into boiling water, in which a good deal of salt has been mixed; after a...minutes they are taken out and dried in the sun; the heads, feet, and wings are then torn off, the bodies are cleansed from the salt and perfectly dried,... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - Bible - 1845 - 494 pages
...are only eaten by the poorest beggars. The Arabs, in preparing locusts as an article of food, throw them alive into boiling water, with which a good deal...cleansed from the salt, and perfectly dried ; after which process whole sacks are filled with them by the Bedouins. They are sometimes eaten broiled in butter... | |
 | Sir Austen Henry Layard - Babylon (Extinct city) - 1853 - 752 pages
...account of the mode of preparing them : — " The Arabs in preparing locusts as an article of food, throw them alive into boiling water, with which a good deal...then torn off; the bodies are cleansed from the salt tmd perfectly dried; after which process whole sacks are filled with them by the Bedouins. They are... | |
 | Four little wise ones - Ants - 1853 - 456 pages
...are only eaten by the poorest beggars. The Arabs, in preparing locusts as an article of food, throw them alive into boiling water with which a good deal...head, feet, and wings, are then torn off, the bodies cleansed from the salt and perfectly dried; after which process, whole sacks are filled with them by... | |
 | James Covel - Bible - 1853 - 560 pages
...preparing locusts as an article of food, throw them alive into boiling water, with which a good deal 01 salt has been mixed ; after a few minutes, they are...cleansed from the salt and perfectly dried ; after which. process, whole sacks are fill* ed with them by the Bedouins. They are sometimes eaten broiled in butter... | |
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I have seen at Medina and Tayf locust shops, where these animals were sold by measure. In Egypt and Nubia they are only eaten by the poorest beggars." " The Arabs, in preparing locusts as an article of food, throw them alive into boiling water with which... 
