Daily quote by Oil

• As one approaches nearer to the country of the Cats, one finds heavy and thick water, which ignites like brandy, and boils up in bubbles of flame when fire is applied to it. It is, moreover, so oily, that all our Savages use it to anoint and grease their heads and their bodies.
  • The Jesuit Relations of 1657 edited by Le Jeune, as qtd. in Old Frontier of France: The Niagara Region and Adjacent Lakes Under French Control Volume 1”, by Frank Hayward Severance, (1917), p. 294.