Note 13 — Section 46. RICE.
Reading edition
[1] das hauptsächlichste Nahrungsmittel.
[2] Say ‘of the inhabitants of India (Indiens)’, etc.
[3] orientalisch.
[4] ernähren.
[5] Nahrungsartikel, m.
[6] Supply here the prep. auf, which should always be used to render the English ‘in’ before names of islands.
[7] in der Lombardei.
[8] auf den Karolinen.
[9] Supply the prep. in.
[10] Der Reisbau, i.e. the cultivation of rice.
[11] an — of = extraordinary much.
[12] The noun ‘rice’ must here be repeated, since the pron. ‘er’ would refer to ‘Reisbau’.
[13] auf.
[14] Ja, die Thatsache, daß, etc.
[15] im Prediger Salomonis; to refer to something, sich auf etwas beziehen. The above mentioned passage reads as follows: ‘Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days’.
[16] Say ‘when the land is still covered by (von) the waters of the Nile’.
[17] sich zurück´ziehen, i.e. withdraw.
[18] sich ab´lagern (see S. 4, N. 4, A); ‘mud’, here Schlamm, m.
[19] Spiritus, m.
[20] aus.
[21] and — bonnets, und das Stroh gebraucht man zur Anfertigung von Männer- und Frauenhüten.