The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; V. 1-27 Volume 25 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...and afford past'..: for sheep, goats, and camels, but it frequently har/p--that they are far from any well. Capt. Lyon obseruthat not only the Arabs and their camels, but all aninu in the desert, have the power of remaining a great les' of time without water. Sheep, provided they have ', lerable herbage, will pass even a month without drinkm: Antelopes and wild cattle in some cases never taste--'?. none being found on the surface of the desert. Thrwandering Arabs cultivate some small tracts with barb or dhurra. These fields are usually at a great distant. from the places to which they go with their flocks, b they are respected by other wanderers, and the corn i- rarely stolen. When it is ripe, the proprietors come t. gather it. They prepare the soil bv turning up the ---." with a rude plough, or more generally with a hoe. Wrt the date season commences, many families come and J-'il their tents in the Mesheea of Tripoli, in order to purrhf. dates for their future subsistence. These theydepmr their stones, and, when kneaded together, keep tnem r skins, so as to preserve them from insects or wet: the.-dates form their chief support, with the milk of their -ht; and camels. The butter, called manteca, which - obtain from the milk of the sheep (that of the camels d not throw up cream), is boiled with a little salt until r becomes like oil, and is then poured into goats'-skin. a-. is fit for use or the market. A great article of comnx.. t is furnished by the fat of sheep. It is boiled until it hr..-- some resemblance to the grease used by tallow-cbandJ. it is then poured into skins, and is fit for use. It u r into almost every article of food by the Aralis, and a extensively used in Tripoli and...