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MODES OF MEASUREMENT. 
picious to me. The injuries we have received make 
us suspicious. 
I ate some honey of Aheer to-day. It has a 
most treacley taste, and. in truth, is not unlike treacle, 
not having the delicate flavour of honey. It has 
purgative qualities. They boil it on the fire, and so 
spoil it. 
I wrote to-day to Viscount Palmerston, to Mr. 
Gagliuffi, and my wife, sending also specimens of 
the Kailouee language, and the journal of Yusuf, 
describing the route from Ghat to Aheer — alto- 
gether a good parcel. 
The Arabs and Moors try to measure everything 
by portions of their body. The draa, a measure from 
the elbow to the tips of the fingers, is in universal 
requisition. The fathom, signified by the arms ex- 
tended on both sides the body, is not so frequently 
in use. The sun is often said to be so many fathoms 
high. If we attended a little more to these natural 
measures it might be well, although the human 
body being so various in size we could never be 
correct, and then we might lose sight of those arti- 
ficial means of measuring objects which distinguish 
us from the semi-barbarian Arabs. 
This evening I heard from Es-Sfaxee a more 
favourable account of the power of En-Noor. It 
would appear that En-N oor is the aged Sheikh, the 
Sheikh Kebeer of the Kailouees, whom all respect, 
and to whom all look up in cases of difficulty and 
distress. With En-Noor always authority remains, 
