Ohfer vat ions &c. 297 



placed in the Edge of It. When This Stone is large, or Expe- 

 dition is required, then a fecond Perfon is called in to affift ; 

 and as it is ufual for the Women alone to be concerned in thisEm- 

 ploy, fitting themfelves down over againft each other with the 

 Mill Stones between them, we may fee not only the Propriety 

 of the Expreflion, Ex.11, of fitting behind the Mill, but the 

 Force alfo of the other. Mat. 1^. 40. that two IVoynen pjall 

 he grinding at the Mill, the one JJjall he talzen and the other 

 left, ^thenaus ' has preferved an Expreflion of Arijlophanes^ 

 which takes Notice of the fame Cuftom that is obferved to 

 this Day among the Bedoween Women, of finging all the 

 while they are thus employed. 



Befides feveral different Sorts of Fricafees, and of Roaft ?f ^fr^i 



-^ > Sorts of Food. 



Boiled, and Forced-Meats, (the firft and laft of which are al- 

 ways made very favory,) the richer Part of the Turks and 

 Moors, mix up a variety of Diflies with Almonds, Dates, 

 Sweet-Meats, Milk, Honey, &c. which it would be too tedi- 

 ous to enumerate. I have feen at fome of their Feftivals, 

 more than two hundred Difhes, whereof forty at leaft were of 

 different Kinds. But among the Bedoweens and Kahyles there 

 are neither Utenfils nor Conveniences for fuch Entertainments ; 

 two or three wooden Bowls, a Pot and a Kettle, being the 

 whole Kitchin Furniture of the great eft Emeer. However all^^^^''- ^^^ff^"^ 



*-' of Eatijig ■ 



the Orders and Degrees of thefe People, from the Bedoween 

 to the Bajhaw, eat in the fame Manner ; waftiing firft their 

 Hands, and then fitting crofs-legged, round a Mat, or low 

 Table , upon which their Difties are placed. They make no 

 Ufe of a Table Cloth, each Perfon contenting Himfelf with a 

 Share of a long Towel that lyes round the Mat. Knives and 

 Spoons are little in Ufe: for the Food, being well roafted 

 and boyled, requires no Carving. Cufcaflbw^e, Pilloe and other 

 Difhes likewife, which we fhould reckon Spoon Meats, are 

 ferved up, in the fame Manner with all their other Sorts of Food, 

 no better than lukewarm, fo that the whole Company dipping 

 their Fingers together in the Difli, (making ufe of their right 

 Hand only,) take what Portion of it they can conveniently 

 difpofe of for a MouthfuU, making it firft into little Balls or 

 Pellets in the Palms of their Hands. No fooner is any Perfon 



I Kai ¥t! •7?itssvi!tov Itn^yi m (fc, aJ^) as Aj/jBjii'Mf h Qif^pexit^iimtf, Athen. Deip. n. 619. EJit. 

 Cafaub. 



F f f f fatisfied. 



