ad. BIRDS HATCHED IN EGYPT 



1580. 



most costly Furniture, and let them out unto women 

 to ride upon, together with a Boy to lead the Asse, 

 and certain Footmen to run by. In this City, like as 

 in divers others, great store of people carry about sundry 

 kinds of victuals to be sold. Many there are also that 

 sell water, which they carry up and downe in certayne 

 Leather bags upon the backes of Camels : for the Citie 

 (as I said before) is two miles distant from Nilus. 

 Others carrie about a more fine and handsome Vessell 

 with a Cocke or Spout of Brasse upon it, having a Cup 

 of Myrrhe or Christall in their hands, and these sell 

 water for men to drinke, and for every draught they 

 Birds hatched take a farthing. Others sell young Chickens and other 

 after a strange Fowles by measure, which they hatch after a wonderfull 



manner m j #-,-., \ t r r> 



E and strange manner. Ihey put, great numbers or rLgges 



into certayne Ovens built upon sundry lofts, which Ovens 

 being moderately heat, will within seven dayes convert 

 all the said Egges into Chickens. Their measures are 

 bottomlesse, which being put into the basket of the buyer, 

 and filled full of Chickens they lift it up, and so let the 

 Chickens fall into the basket. Likewise, such as buy 



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