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Updated: June 23, 2025
There was in his army a man, otherwise mean and contemptible, but of the house of the Africani, and his name Scipio Sallutio. For he was in such want both of victualing for his men, and forage for his horses, that he was forced to feed the horses with sea-weed, which he washed thoroughly to take off its saltiness, and mixed with a little grass, to give it a more agreeable taste.
This was the zone of the great fish and reached down to within two hundred fathoms of the bottom, a depth to which the sun's rays never penetrate. Beyond that there was no light; plant life disappeared and with it the herbivorous animals. In the littoral, the waters, healthfully agitated, vary in saltiness according to the proximity of the rivers.
These discoveries are very important and suggestive, because the geological changes which we are studying are especially apt to bring about changes of temperature and changes in the freshness or saltiness of water. Evolution is, therefore, not a "mere description" of the procession of living things; it is to a great extent an explanation of the procession.
But after you have been a month or so without salt you cease to long for it, and after six months I have found the taste of meat boiled in salt water positively disagreeable. Among the uncivilized Eskimos the dislike of salt is so strong that a saltiness imperceptible to me would prevent them from eating at all.
In a couple of hours we found ourselves with a full creel of eels and oura, and I a trifle dismayed at facing the march home. Raiere relieved Tahitua of the burden, and a song shortened the way. I gave them the ditty of the New-Zealand Maori, who metaphorically toasted his enemy: O, the saltiness of my mouth In drinking the liquid brains of Nuku Whence welled up his wrath!
But where a grain of salt had parted with its savor, there was naught else that could impart saltiness to it, and it became worthless and fit only for the refuse heap. The duty of the "salt" is to impart savor the duty of the Elect is to impart savor to the race of men. "Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.
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