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drain ; when all this is done, it ftands till it cools, and jars 
being prepared to put it up in, they pour upon it the liquor in 
which it was fried, and when it is thoroughly cold, they flop it 
up clofe^ it will keep for two years, will alfo become hard, 
and the hardeft they look on as the beft done 5 this they difh up 
cold, fbmetimes fried with eggs and garlick, fometimes fie wed, 
with lemon fqueezed on it 5 it Is very good either hot or cold. 
Their travelling provifions are bread, almonds, raifins, figs, 
hard eggs, cold fowl, ^c. but what is mofl ufed by travellers is 
Zumecty J'umeety or flour of parched barley for Limereece, 
which, not being Arabian, but Shilha names, made H^.^oties 
take it to be of a longer flanding than the Mahometans in that 
part of Africa ; they are all three made of parched barley flour, 
which they carry in a leathern fatchel^ Zumeet is the flour 
mixed with honey, butter, and fpice j T'umeet is the fame flour 
done up with origan oil ; and Limereece is the flour only mixed 
with water, and fo drank ^ this quenches thirfl much better than 
water alone, fatisfies a hungry appetite, and cools and refreshes 
the traveller, getting the better of thofe ill effeils a hot fun and a 
fatiguing journey might occafion; the mountaineers of *S>//^ ufe 
this for their diet, at home as well as on a journey : It is lawful 
for them to eat all they take in hawking, hunting, and fowling, 
if they take it before it be dead, fo as to have time to cirt its 
throat, and fay Sifmiillah^ or if a man is known to be expert at 
the game, and fays thofe words, before he lets the hawk take its 
flight, lets go the grey-hound, or fires his gun, it is lawful 5 ex* 
cept fwine's flefli, and what dies of itfelf, they are at liberty to 
eat or fell whatever they catch 5 they pretend that there is but one 
part about the hog that is unlawful, and which they do not 
know, and for that reafon are obliged to abflain from the whole 5 
they eat fnails boiled with fait, and cry up their wholefomenels ; 
it is lawful for them to eat fiih of all forts ^ moft of their food in 
TajSilet and 2)arha is dates, of which there are ten or a dozen 
forts 5 they have good capons all over the country ; they have no 
turkeys, ducks, nor geefe, but what are wild, and thofe of two 
forts J duck, teal, and mallard are good eating, as alfo curlews, 
plovers, fnipes, oxbirds, pipers, and a fort of black crow with a 
bald pate, and long crooked bill; Mtilopes, killed in hunting, 
prove very good food 5 they are as large as a goat, of a chefnut- 
colour, and white under the belly 5 their horns are altrioft quite 
ftreight from the head upwards, and gradually tapering, with 
rings at a diftance from each other, till within an inch and a 
half of the tip ; tbey have fine large black eyes, a long and 
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