Schioicao. —Tbe Chinese use a composition, bearing the above title, which has the property of making wood and other substances perfectly water-tight. A gentleman writing home from Pekin says he has seen wooden chests covered with it that had been to St. Petersburgh and back, and which were in no way injured. The Chinese use it largely for covering straw baskets which are afterwards employed in carrying oil for long distances. Cardboard, when covered with it, becomes as hard as wood; and most wooden buildings in Pekin have a coating of it. Schioicao, it is stated, is composed of three parts blood deprived of its fibrine, four of lime, and a little alam. = -'.'."• > <-r
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 13, 22 April 1871, Page 16
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