Ignorance as to some of our Common Food--Ox
Tongues--Polonies--Confidence inspired by the Pie-man eating one
of his own Pies, 367. We eat many things which would be refused
by others, 368. Bounty and Wisdom of the Creator in providing for
Man--Difficulty of determining what are Food Delicacies, 369. New
Varieties of Food may be Provided Artificially--Fresh Hides of Cattle
a Delicacy in Java--Buffalo Hides and other Skins made into Jellies
at Home--Buckskin Breeches, boiled and stuffed with Sea-weed for
Food--Resumé of the Dainties of Different People--Verification of the
Proverb--‘One half the world does not know how the other half lives.’