Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1868 — Eating Clouds. [ARTICLE]

Eating Clouds.

Dr. Livingston says: “During a* portion of the year, the northern dwellers or. Lake Nynssa, in Africa havo a harvest which furnishes a singular kind of food. As wo approached ouriimit in that direction, clouds, ns of sfeolto arising from miles of burning gras°, a cre observed bending in a sontbeasterty direction, and we thought tho «n----sccn land in the opposite side waa closing in, and that wo were neat' the end of tho lake. Rut next morning wo sailed through one of lids clouds in our own side, and diseoe*) ered that it was neither smoke nor. hoao, but countless millions-of mi- • note midges called “kungo” (a cloud of fbg). They filled the air to an* immense bight, and swam upon the. water too light to Sink ift it. Eyes and mouth had to be closed while passing through "this living cloud,, they attack upon the face like flit 0 drifting 6now. Thousands lay ih the boat after emerging (Win the ", clouds of midges. The people gathered these insects by night and boiled thorn into thick cakes, to ho. used ns a relish —millions of tpidgek' ( in a cake. A kungo cake an inch’ thick, and as largo as the blno tfWdl net of a Scoteh plowman, wioi offered to os, it was vety dark in solar,* and tasted not unlike caviare or salted locusts.” : " ■, ™ v — lt ic stated that a ecmeftt f«-, permeabio by air w stead), can bet made ae foUowai—Sl* parts <£»«?»« dered graphite, three parts of slaked lime, and eight parts of sulphate, 1 art) mixed with seven parts of boiled.. I oil. The mass must be #*H> komaffw ! ed, until the mixture ie perfoet, <>-■» —A slugle manufactory h M this season packed iMmkd cans of green -