Pathe-Magazine Revue Universelle des Sciences, Arts, Industries, Voyages, & Sports, No. 24

Title: Pathe-Magazine Revue Universelle des Sciences, Arts, Industries, Voyages, & Sports, No. 24
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Pathe-Magazine, Universal Magazine of the Sciences, Arts, Industry, Travel, and Sports, No. 24
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Travel. The forests of California. In the state of Mariposa, there still exist some thousand-year-old trees. One of these giants struck down by lightning. Two people side-by-side can easily walk along the trunk. The circumference of these trees at the base can reach great dimensions. Acrobatics. The man with the steel neck. A novel way of climbing stairs. The slowed-down footage shows us the amount of strength used in his neck. Culture. Sago harvesting in Borneo. The Sago tree's core contains a starchy nutritional material. To proceed with extracting this matter, the stem of the Sago tree is cut. The stem is divided, split into many pieces. These pieces are transported by rafts. The core is removed and grated. The resulting flour is washed by rudimentary means. Raffia. Raffia, the fibers which are used for mats, is cultivated in eastern Madagascar. The cut on the tree. The fibers are detached from the main branch … and then afterwards split in two. After drying, the fibers are hand-spun. At last a mat is woven with very rustic skill. The Chillouks. Population of the left bank of the white Nile under Khartoum. The women are employed to the hardest jobs. Meanwhile, the men smoke their pipes. The women go fetch water from the river under the vigilant eye of a guardian.
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Pathe-Magazine
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Pathe-Magazine
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Pathe-Magazine