Section 46. Rice

Rice forms the⁠ chief subsistance of the people⁠ in India, China, Japan, and other eastern⁠ countries. Indeed, it supports⁠ more persons than any other article of food⁠. In Asia it (S. 2, N. 1) is chiefly cultivated in India, China, and⁠ Ceylon; in Europe: in Lombardy⁠ (Italy) and Spain; in Africa: in Egypt; in South America: in Brazil; and in North America: in⁠ the Carolines and⁠ Louisiana. Its⁠ cultivation requires an⁠ immense quantity of moisture. It⁠ grows best in⁠ fields which can be inundated. Indeed⁠, the fact that it is usually sown upon watery soil makes it probable that the first Verse of the eleventh Chapter in⁠ Ecclesiastes refers to Rice. In Egypt, for example, it is always sown while⁠ the waters of the Nile cover the land, and when the floods subside⁠, (S. 27, N. 8) it is deposited⁠ in the mud. A strong spirit⁠, called arrack, is distilled from⁠ rice, and⁠ the straw is used for making plait for hats and bonnets.—Nelson’s Readers.

das hauptsächlichste Nahrungsmittel.

Say ‘of the inhabitants of India (Indiens)’, etc.

orientalisch.

ernähren.

Nahrungsartikel, m.

Supply here the prep. auf, which should always be used to render the English ‘in’ before names of islands.

in der Lombardei.

auf den Karolinen.

Supply the prep. in.

Der Reisbau, i.e. the cultivation of rice.

an — of = extraordinary much.

The noun ‘rice’ must here be repeated, since the pron. ‘er’ would refer to ‘Reisbau’.

auf.

Ja, die Thatsache, daß, etc.

im Prediger Salomonis; to refer to something, sich auf etwas beziehen. The above mentioned passage reads as follows: ‘Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days’.

Say ‘when the land is still covered by (von) the waters of the Nile’.

sich zurück´ziehen, i.e. withdraw.

sich ab´lagern (see S. 4, N. 4, A); ‘mud’, here Schlamm, m.

Spiritus, m.

aus.

and — bonnets, und das Stroh gebraucht man zur Anfertigung von Männer- und Frauenhüten.