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fafety; perhaps better if cold. Ail ioups or broths are to be 

 avoided ; all game is bad. 



I have known many very fcrupulous about eating {up- 

 pers, but, I am peri'uaded, without reaibn. The great perfpi- 

 ration which relaxes the ftomach fo much through the day 

 has now ceafed, and the breathing of cooler air has given 

 to its opevaiions a much itronger tone. I always made it 

 my moil liberal meal, if I ate meat at all. While at Jidda, 

 my fupper was a piece of cold, roafted mutton, and a large 

 glafs of water, with my good friend Captain Thornhill, du- 

 ring the dog-days. 



After this, the exceffive heat of the day being paft, co- 

 vering our heads from the night-air, always blowing at 

 that time from the eaft and charged with watery particles 

 from the Indian Ocean, we had a luxurious walk of two or 

 three hours, as free from the heat as from the noife and 

 impertinence of the day, upon a terraffed roof, under a cloud- 

 lefs iky, where the fmalleft ftar is vifible. Thefe evening 

 walks have been looked upon as one of the principal plea- 

 fures of the eaft, even though not accompanied with the 

 luxuries of aftronomy and meditation. They have been ad- 

 hered to from early times to the prefent, and we may there- 

 fore be allured they were always wholefome; they have 

 often been mifapplied and mifpent in love. 



It is a -cuftom that, from the firft ages, has prevailed in 

 the eaft, to fhriek and lament upon the death of a friend or 

 relation, and cut their faces upon the temple with their 

 nails, about- the breadth of a Hxpence, one of which is left 

 long for that purpofe. It was always practifed by the Jews, 

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