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and Pepper, &c. It will keep above a Month, 

 and this they have commonly, as alfb pickled 

 Limes, Olives, Capers, &c. They eat parch^^ 

 ed Caravancas^ parched Almonds, and Beans, 

 which they parch in a Pan with Water and 

 Salt. Thefe, and other things, they have 

 to reli/h their Glafs of Wine, or give them 

 a frefii Appetite to drink. They fay, to cure 

 the ill EfTeds of a drunken Bout, is, to take 

 a fwinging Cup of the fame Liquor, which 

 invites them to more, and fo on. 



But I have kftfgme Diihes, by this Digref- 

 iion, to give an Account of their extravagant 

 Mirth. 



The Hedgehog is a ^princely Dilh among 

 them, and before they kill him rub his Back 

 againft the Ground, by holding its Feet be- 

 twixt two, as Men do a Saw that faw? Stones, 

 till it has done Squeaking ; then they cut it$ 

 Throat, and with a Knife cut off all its Spines 

 and finge it. They take out its Guts, ftufF 

 the Body with fome Rice, fweet Herbs, Ga- 

 ravancas, Spice, and Onions ; they put Ibme 

 Butter and Garavancas into the Water they 

 ftew it in, and let it flew in a little Pot, 

 clofe flopped, till it is enough, and it proves 

 an excellent Dilh. The Moors do not care 

 to kill Lamb, Veal, nor Kid, faying it is a 

 Pity to part the Suckling from its Dam. 

 They eat with their boiPd Meat, many times 

 Carrots, Turnipsof two or three forts, Cab- 

 bage, Beans, and Peafe, d^c. which they have 

 plenty, and very good. I have eat of Po^^ 

 cupineltewed, which much refembled Camek 

 Flefii in Taft, and that is the neareft to Be^f 

 pf any thing I know. 



