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FRUITS IN THEIK, SEASON. 127
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to within prove its its rook relation y walls ski but p with the , substance the cereals throug . No hout soft is kernel one stony lies
_albuininoLis solidsave , a minute embryo in the midst of the apparent . petrifaction marks where , ly the ing , mostl seed y was remote attached from to the the hilum fruit , . or In scar Barbary , which into beads for
rosaries these _enoiigh stones . to be Soaked are eaten submitted in by water came for to nutritious ls , the cows a coup lathe , and food le , of and sheep than days made , and b they even become while in this soft in state said to be a more arley ;
are b Wedlake some eing parts bruised , " , they under or are ground the made . influence At to Medina go throug perhap there h s , the of are some further shops and loc where in p al rocess all " Mary this the of
main seeming streets refuse dili is gent the beggars only article eke b out ought the and gains sold of , mendicancy by collecting date-stones as they are flung away by fruit-eating
passengers every The informed district varieties . having that of the above some date one a -palm hundred kind peculiar are different almost to itself innumerable sorts , and grew Burckhardt , in nearl the y
was immediate neihborhood of Medina . The commonest kind , and larger that which than owed g mulberry its origin but to Mahomet extremel ' s m sweet iracl . , bears Another a fruit variety not ,
called , according a to Crichton , , the birni , was y however the prophet ' s for special the favorite stomachs , and of the taking faithful thoug he ht recommended in his divine every benevolence Arab to even eat
seven of these most wholesome , and digestible fruits each morning * which before are his real breakfast magnum . Yet bonum superior s , being excellence are full another three b inches kind attested , long the too and jebeli by of ,
the very fact agreeable that the flavor same ; coin their ( worth choice a fraction more eing than twopence ) but which will the purchase price of a hundred twelve of and these twent dainties y of the ; which common packed sort will in
boxes and pay a holding _Customary about present a hundred from returning , form a specia hadjis lite to of their the , Hol friends y City at , to Constan
home . The monks of Sinaitoosend hacJcsheesh yearly - with tinople a , in gustative the shape cunning of large , worth boxes , y of lace of monkhood dates toothsome ; after , extracted having almond first the ,
inedible Except stone during and the substituted season for in the its p fecundating a process , date- . trees need little attention , beyond occasionally lopping off the usuall old leaves left
projecting as they wither from , the only tmnk a fragment _, to assist of the their whole ascent stalks fade of d the being climbing is allowed y
fruitto round gatherer remain the , thoug hang tree . ing h A in down little . some watering the places trunk the too , and is sometimes forming foliage a required kind of , barrier and it Medinathat
is not and an onl on oppression y every have measure they ke to enl pay y of felt a dates heavy by the gathered tax palm on , - the cultivator but number even s on of of every trees drop grown , of ,
Fruits In Theik, Season. 127
FRUITS IN THEIK , _SEASON . 127
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/55/
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