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They were not only eaten fresh, but preserved for hard times by drying and pounding up into a powder. This was boiled into a sort of porridge, or mixed with honey and made into a cake : in the latter form it was appreciated even by Europeans. Frogs and serpents were dainty eating : poisonous serpents were decapitated before beinof cooked ; their flesh has the flavour of chicken. The vegetable king;dom was ransacked for all that it could afford, even the seeds of wild grasses were collected and ...stored for winter use. " How short a step it seems from this to agriculture ; but to take this step requires qualities that the Bushmen never possessed, and inconsistent with his unconquerable love of a wild life. A kind of bread was made out of the pithy interior of Zamias, or of the root of Testudinaria elephas. In summer, when Vv-ater is more than usually scarce, the Bushmen satisfy their thirst with the acid juice of melons, which grow plentifully, even in the desert, at that season ; but if water is to be found they may be trusted to find it.
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