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covel's diary.
Capt. 5.—Our Stay at Tunis and Carthage.
That night we went on shoar for water, but were not
then permitted to have any; yet we might freely ramble
upon the shoare. The Castle seems very strong to the
Sea. We were not suffer'd to view the other side to the
Land. By the Castle they have several pools or ponds of
standing water, one of which (as we were told) can, at
pleasure, have communication with the sea. These are full
of fish. We bought good store of Mullet, and there wc had
one true Bream, large and very fat. We had them very
cheap, as we thought, but our Interpreter counted them
dear. There were several sorts of fruit brought to us—
excellent melons, Pomegranates, Limes, and salating
herbes, with which we stock't ourselves, and so came again
on board. Next morning (Oct. 31) we went on shoar at
the watering-place, where were come down many country
people with Eggs, Hens, Sheep, Goats, Bullocks, milk,
Pompions, Fish, Pigeons, citrons, Dates, Oranges, Lemons,
and Limes (which are a sort of hedge or crab Lemmons),
with whose juice our Seamen make their punch. There
was also store of bread to be bought. They make some of
it of pure good wheat, most of it of millet, some of what we
call Turkish wheat (maize), much of barley flour, and lighten
it with leaven of salt and sower'd honey and oil, which give
it a brackish taste, yet it is not unpleasant whilst it is new.
They bake it flat, with a rising in the middle like a coppled1
cake. Every ship stored themselves from hence with what
they wanted of sea provisions. Our Capt. caried a net on
shoar, which by all our Seamen was called a Sain (I sup-
pose from aayXtov, Sagena, Math, xiii, 47). It was a sort of
drag net. Having obtained leave, we turned it twice or
1 Coppled —with a peak or cop, sugar-loaf form.
covel's diary.
Capt. 5.—Our Stay at Tunis and Carthage.
That night we went on shoar for water, but were not
then permitted to have any; yet we might freely ramble
upon the shoare. The Castle seems very strong to the
Sea. We were not suffer'd to view the other side to the
Land. By the Castle they have several pools or ponds of
standing water, one of which (as we were told) can, at
pleasure, have communication with the sea. These are full
of fish. We bought good store of Mullet, and there wc had
one true Bream, large and very fat. We had them very
cheap, as we thought, but our Interpreter counted them
dear. There were several sorts of fruit brought to us—
excellent melons, Pomegranates, Limes, and salating
herbes, with which we stock't ourselves, and so came again
on board. Next morning (Oct. 31) we went on shoar at
the watering-place, where were come down many country
people with Eggs, Hens, Sheep, Goats, Bullocks, milk,
Pompions, Fish, Pigeons, citrons, Dates, Oranges, Lemons,
and Limes (which are a sort of hedge or crab Lemmons),
with whose juice our Seamen make their punch. There
was also store of bread to be bought. They make some of
it of pure good wheat, most of it of millet, some of what we
call Turkish wheat (maize), much of barley flour, and lighten
it with leaven of salt and sower'd honey and oil, which give
it a brackish taste, yet it is not unpleasant whilst it is new.
They bake it flat, with a rising in the middle like a coppled1
cake. Every ship stored themselves from hence with what
they wanted of sea provisions. Our Capt. caried a net on
shoar, which by all our Seamen was called a Sain (I sup-
pose from aayXtov, Sagena, Math, xiii, 47). It was a sort of
drag net. Having obtained leave, we turned it twice or
1 Coppled —with a peak or cop, sugar-loaf form.