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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. 83money; whether Christians or Moslems, English or French,built the temples. My pencil they did not uriderstand, andthey could not comprehend the use of a pocket fork thatI showed them, and for which they had no name. The aga,having prepared a dinner for me, invited several of the nativesto sit down. Water was brou^t in a skin, by an attendant^to wash OUT hands. Two fowls roasted were served up onwheaten cakes in a wooden bowl, covered with a small mat^and a number of the same cakes in another; in the centre ofthese was liquid butter and preserved dates. These weredivided, broken up, and mixed together by some of the party,^whilst others pulled ihe fowls to pieces; which done, theparty began to eat as frist as they could; getting up one'after the other, as -soon as. their hunger was satisfied; theaga in the mean time locking on*^ .' *V During my visit 1-observed an ©Id imam attempt toperform' a cure on one of the natives, who came to him onaccount of a head-ache from which -he suffered. It was donein the following manner: the patient squatted himself downnear the imam, who putting his finger and thumb to thepatient's forehead, closed them gradually together, pinching* (f And Abraham ran into the herd, &c. and he stood by them,and they did eat." Gf^«w, chap, xviii. 7, S,- M 2ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ