WOODEN FOOD OF SIBERIANS.
A traveller in Siberia, a few years back, noted that among the natives along the northern coast, wood in a certain form is a most common and constant article of diet. The natives eat it because they like it, even when fish are plentiful it usually forms part of the evening meal, as many cleanly stripped larch logs near every hut testify. These people knew by experience that the fact «f their eating wood arouses sympathy of strangers, and shrewdly use it to excite pity and obtain gifts of tea and tobacco. They scrape off thiek Fayers immediately under the bark of the log, and, chopping it fine mix it with snow. It is then boiled in a kettle. Sometimes a little fish roe, milk, or butter is mixed with it.
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Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 49, 10 July 1906, Page 8
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135WOODEN FOOD OF SIBERIANS. Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 49, 10 July 1906, Page 8
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