MANNA, THE HEAVENLY BREAD,

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1779, 29 February 1888, Page 2

MANNA, THE HEAVENLY BREAD,

Mr Cole, of Bltlia, a mi«ionary of the American Board, (n Eastern Tqrkey, m describing the journey from Harpoot to Bltliß, aaya :— " We travelled for four daya through a region where had newly fallen a remarkable deposit of heavenly bread, as the natives sometimes call it — manna. There were extensive forests of scrubby oaka, and most of the deposit was on the leaves, Thousands of the poor peasants, meo^ women, and ohildren wore out upon the plains gathering the sweet eobatanoe. Some of them plunge Into kettles of boiling water tbo newly- ' cut branches of the oaka, which washes off the deposit until the water becomes so sweet as to remind the Yankee of a veritable sugaring off m the old Granite State! 8a ho takea sipa of It. Other companies of natives may be Been vigorously beating the branches, that, from having bean spread on the ground, have bo dried that the glistening crystals fall readily upon the carpet spread to reoelve them. 3hs crystals are separated from the pieoes of leaves by a sieve, and then the manna jfi