THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 4D 
fafety; perhaps better if cold. All foups or broths are to be 
avoided ; all game is bad. 
I nave known many very fcrupulous about eating fup- 
pers, but, Iam perfuaded, without reafon, 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 operations a much ftronger tone. I always made it 
my moftt 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. 
Arter 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 terrafled roof, under a cloud- 
lefs fky, 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 affured they. were always wholefome; they have 
often been mifapplied and mifpent in love. 
Ir 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 fixpence, one of which is left 
long for that purpofe. It was always practifed by the Jews, 
Mor Ti. ~ G and 
