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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 125, 24 December 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

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A COUNTRY && CUSTOMS Owing to the excessivi months •of the/ year, Egyptian is by nature di and serious. The first s ienced by the visitor land is one of unwonted quility. Even the daily greet; be with you," and grad becomes habituated to t dolence which governs the day and night. To rise with the sun coolness of the morning light, while our host, goes to his prayers upon After prayers come th fee and the pipe of pea divans, with the slaves tention, their eyes! do ground, mine host and 1 change morning greetin iters arrive, the mastei receives them affections many flowery complimen seat themselves cross-! them, his inferiors rep kneeling posture, seated while persons of great conducted to an elevat which height they can g tiie company, just as die palace of Dido, when, i he related to the queen tale of Troy reduced to. When the guests arifl vants bring pipes and J sorbet and various sm in the middle of the <su perfume is placed, wni< the whole place with vapours. The tobacco with the scented wood o long-stemmed pipes of j tipped with amber, have restful effect on the sm

As the visit draws ti yants approach with a ing precious essences w guest perfumes his bea wards they pour rose hands; then the guests] many salutations. At noon the table is principal meal of the d; Hat copper dish are m viands, the centre dish huge pyramid of boiled try richly seasoned wi choice spices. Bound smaller ones, containii eons, cucumbers, roast ious kinds carved into which have been spitted on coal fire, seasoned , covered with the fat of was a dish of this kind Last Supper, into whicl hand, thus unconscious intention of betraying t This habit of dipping observed to the present before and after the mei with an ewer of water i fore each guest or mem »ly.

The meal concludes fruits, and huge melons ty. After it is over, th< to their private apartn a few hours in theV women and children Wk rich seek a place of q noonday heat in their/ The poor, having neiw harems, lie.down on 1 they have dined. - in the evening all rej the cooler air on the bai or go in boats- upon ti others sit croas-iegged shade ot orange and s An hour alter sunset tn is spread, the dishes a, of rice, poultry, fegetai This diet is particulai during the great heat,« in eating and drinking tue with the Egyptian* The juice of tbe grape

in great quantities and a kind or jelly, thick with a knife. This is pi skins, and is used bottt for butter and as a drin with water.

Honey is another wh of diet much eaten in J natives exhibit much sk ity in bee culture. The harvest are much ea Egypt than in Lower 1 Upper inhabitants prof cumstance in a remat

They 'collect all the biv< ent villages and carry the Nile, where they large barques. The boa scend the river slowlyj suitable places where i pasturage for the bees. spent three months on bee herdsmen return a hives (every proprietor ed a part:cuiar mark i the owners. After hav small sum, due to the bo mg conducted the hives of Egypt to the other, the bees finds! he is enrjj

mense quantity of. iM which is The Egyptian honey if flavour, and is expor countries in large quant Such is the daily. 1 where, save in war tin day in the peaceful mon the same thing at the the same way, accordinj lished customs of the pa rules triumphantly, and of the ancient manners Old Joe was talking, the edification of the < football experiences be theme. " I shall never forget he. "We were drawn about a minute to go, 1 ball. Oft I went, pa* man, till I got within r I paused. 1 can hear tr ing now, 'Shoot, man, ing one foot well Beet, the yell that went up. sign of pain. "Well, Joe, did you one impatient listener. "Score? Good heaye missus fully ten minut bed-rail from between in