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vation forced to take in the ruder occupations of thofcf 

 times, have, to my very great regret, obliterated long ago 

 the whole from my memory. 



Itis a general cuftom in Mafuah for people to burn 

 myrrh and incenfe in their houl'es before they open the 

 doors in the morning; and when they go out at night, 

 or early, in the day, they have always a fmall piece of 

 rag highly fumigated with thefe two perfumes, which 

 they Huff into eachnoflril to keep them from the unwhole- 

 fome air. 



The houfes in Mafuah are, in general, built of poles and 

 bent grafs, as in the towns of Arabia ; but, befides thefe, 

 there are about twenty, of Hone, fix or eight of which are 

 two floreys each ; though the fecond feldom confifts of more 

 than one room, and that one generally not a large one. 

 The Hones are drawn out of the fea as at Dahalac ; and in 

 thefe we fee the beds of that curious muffel, or lhell-flfh, 

 found to be contained in the folid rock at Mahon, called 

 Dattoll da mare, or fea-dates, the fifh of which I never law in 

 the ked Sea; though there is no doubt but they are to be 

 found in the rocky iflands about Mafuah, if they break the 

 rocks for them. 



Although Mafuah is fituated in the very entrance of A- 

 byffinia, a very plentiful country, yet all the necellaries of 

 life are fcarce and dear. Their quality, too, is very indif- 

 ferent. This is owing to the difficulty, expence, and dan- 

 ger of carrying the feveral articles through the defert flat 

 country, called Samhar, which lies between Arkeeko and 

 the mountains of Abyffinia ; a* well as to. the extortions 



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