Travels in Upper And Lower Egypt Undertaken By Order of the Old Government of F
Travels in Upper And Lower Egypt Undertaken By Order of the Old Government of F
C S Charles Sigisbert Sonnini
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They take off * Mem. Of Missions to the Levant, vol. V. P. 222. Gran- ger has also confounded the doum with the wild date-tree. — [Travels in Egypt, p. 240. ] H 4 the 104 TRAVELS IX UPPEK the first envelope which is red, and they eat the spungy and almost dry substance with which the nut is covered. Although the Egyptians think, this a very savoury fruit, I found it very insipid. I cannot give it another resemblance than to bad gingerbread, of which it has the dryness, and the faint and disagre...eable sweetness. I have eaten a fruit in America the taste of which has a great resemblance to this, and whicli is produced by the courbarily a very large tree in the southern coun- tries of the new continent *. The pithy substance of the doian is also a medicine made use of in Thebais. They infuse it in water with dates ; and this draught, which is a cooling and gentle purge, is of great service in tempering the ardour of a fever and in curing it. I found again in the same place a disgusting and horrible malady, of which I have seen negroes in the French colony of Guiana, become the most wretched victims : it is known there under the denomination of the red disease.
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