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~OORISH HOSPITALI'l'Y. 313are of thewild kïnd, not being domesticated he're. These good Mohom~merlans planted vineyards and drank of the wine, and 50 forth; not topRrticularize further, lèavîng it for,our authority. "When a numberof them, with every one l,is mistress, appoint to be merry, they retireto theïr vineyard or garde.f;l, where they have music, and aU or mostofthe aboye dishes, and there sit and carOuse over a greatearthen bowlfull of wine, of four or fivegallons, drinking round outofacup holdingnearlya pint; and they seldom part uutil they have made an end ofthe whole. When one neigllbour has a guest at his house, others onknowing it send each his dish, and come themselves to keep company{thus we tihd the origio of pic-nic,'and thus nothing is new under thesun). The Jews hereare equaUy hospitable. (See Saugnier's testimonyto their honour,ofrecent date,in the SE)uth.) , They eat the Young beeswhilst whitewith the honey, ~se the left hand iheating, and Iick théirfingers cIean" (a remnant of the ancient and sacred kitchen system):lff.The inhabitants of the (.soi-disant) ancient towns consider themselvesas ofa more honourable extraction than any other people in this country.Such are the resources of vanity :-one piques himself on being aninvader or conqueror, auother that he is an aboriginal. 'fhese civicMoors.are indeed in many instances the descendants of the scientificandckevaleresque race of AndaJusia and Grc(llada. Considered as QIttrridersby those who had stepped into .their'places here, theiç ejectionfroni Spain was peculiarly 'cruel. They had been ,80 ~ong addicted tocivic éase and b~okish indolence, that they were,lVhe~ forced to returnto Africa l'rom the Peninsula, utterly unable to cope with the barbarousfanatics who had usurped their primitive soU ; and they became, or Continued,tradesmen and a.."tizans, ieaving the cultivation of the earth to,.. A dog ·feast is a favourite one with the Indians or Savages of North America, who are supposed, to be of Tartar descent. And their soleron treaties or agreements of association are generally ratilied01: solemnized with such feasts. In most of their dogs there is a mixture of the fox.2 S