 | Francis Galton - Travel - 1855 - 246 pages
...up in wheelbarrows, and thrown into vats. These vats contain brine made very strong, being sea-water with great quantities of salt thrown in. This pickles the hides, and in this they lie 48 hours ; the use of the sea-water into which they are first put being merely to soften and clean... | |
 | Hardships - Home economics - 1861 - 168 pages
...made very strong, being sea-water with great quantities of salt thrown in. This pickles the nides, and in this they lie forty-eight hours ; the use of...soften and clean them. From these vats they are taken to lie on a platform twenty-four hours, and are then spread upon the ground and carefully stretched... | |
 | Francis Galton - Travel - 1867 - 376 pages
...up in wheelbarrows, and thrown into vats. These vats contain brine made very strong, being sea-water with great quantities of salt thrown in. This pickles the hides, and in this they lie 48 hours : the use of the sea-water into which they are first put being merely to soften and clean... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) - Sailors - 1869 - 524 pages
...wheelbarrows, and thrown into the vats. These vats contain brine, made very strong, — being sea-water, with great quantities of salt thrown in. This pickles...hours ; the use of the sea-water, into which they arc first put, being merely to soften and clean them. From these vats they are taken, and lie on a... | |
 | William Barry Lord - 1871 - 888 pages
...in whee1barrows, and thrown into vats. These vats contain brine, made very strong, being sea-wator with great quantities of salt thrown in. This pickles...soften and clean them. From these vats they are taken to lie on a platform twenty-four hours, and are then spread upon the ground and carefully stretched... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana - Seafaring life - 1895 - 488 pages
...wheelbarrows, and thrown into the vats. These vats contain brine, made very strong, — being sea-water, with great quantities of salt thrown in. This pickles...first put, being merely to soften and clean them. Prom these vats they are taken, and lie on a platform for twenty-four hours, and then are spread upon... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana - Seafaring life - 1890 - 374 pages
...wheel-barrows, and thrown into the vats. These vats contain brine, made very strong ; being seawater, with great quantities of salt thrown in. This pickles...upon the ground, and carefully stretched and staked our, so that they may dry smooth. After they were staked, and while yet wet and soft, we used to go... | |
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Every day we put in soak twenty-five for each man, which, with us, made an hundred and fifty. There they lie forty-eight hours, when they are taken out, and rolled up, in wheel-barrows, and thrown into the vats. These vats contain brine, made very strong... 