 | John R. Peters - 1845 - 216 páginas
...who see nothing below them but the turbulent surf making its way into the chasms of the rock." After they are obtained, they are separated from feathers...dirt, are carefully dried and packed, and are then ready for the consumer. The sale of birds' nests is a monopoly with all the governments in whose dominions... | |
 | John R. Peters - 1846 - 340 páginas
...who see nothing below them but the turbulent surf making its way into the chasms of the rock." After they are obtained, they are separated from feathers...dirt, are carefully dried and packed, and are then ready for the consumer. The sale of birds' nests is a monopoly with all the governments in whose dominions... | |
 | Julius Berncastle - 1850 - 338 páginas
...luxury. After the nests are obtained, they are separated from feathers and dirt, are carefullydried and packed, and are then fit for the market. The Chinese,...prices; the best, or white kind, often being worth four thousand dollars per pecul,* which is nearly twice their weight in silver. The middling kind is... | |
 | Julius Berncastle - 1850 - 314 páginas
...luxury. After the nests are obtained, they are separated from feathers and dirt, are carefullydried and packed, and are then fit for the market. The Chinese,...prices; the best, or white kind, often being worth four thousand dollars per pecul,* which is nearly twice their weight in silver. The middling kind is... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1871 - 830 páginas
...dark-coloured, streaked with blood, and intermixed with feathers and dirt. After they are procured, they are separated from feathers and dirt, are carefully...dried and packed, and are then fit for the market. The best sort in China are sent to Pekin, for the use of the Emperor. The labour bestowed upon them to... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1885 - 1302 páginas
...method of procuring these nests somewhat resembles that of catching birds in the Orkney Isles. After they are obtained, they are separated from feathers...dirt, are carefully dried and packed, and are then ready for the consumer. The Chinese are the only purchasers, and carry them in junks to the Chinese... | |
 | 1867 - 488 páginas
...preserve the shape. Those procured after the young are fledged, are not saleable in China After the nests are obtained, they are separated from feathers and...junks to this market, where they command extravagant prices—the best, or white kind, often being worth four thousand dollars per picul, (a Chinese weight»... | |
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they are obtained] they are separated from feathers and dirt, are carefully dried and packed, and are then fit for the market. The Chinese, who are the only people that purchase them for their own use, bring them in junks to this market, where they command... 