dry-cured

Updated: June 4, 2025

The flesh of a young dugong is sweet and tender, and the blubber, dry-cured after the manner of bacon with equal quantities of salt and sugar and finally smoked, quite a delicacy. Not long since an opportunity was given of examining the effects of a bullet on a dugong.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber