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^iS TRAVELS IN UPPER
I saw besides several fields covered with a
species of large millet, which in Egypt is called
aourra *. It is an object of great cultivation,
which yields an abundant harvest. Its produce is
estimated at nearly fifty-fold. The Egyptians
make bread, or rather indifferent muffins, of the
seed of the dourra; they likewise ascribe to it
great efficacy in healing fractures of the limbs,
applying it when reduced to a powder.
The great Indian pink, or African -f~, displayed
its beautiful yellow flowers amidst other plants,
in different gardens.
We had reached the period in which wild
ducks of various sorts arrive from every quarter
in Lower Egypt. The smaller kind, as the teal,
come thither at the beginning of October, and
the larger ones appear later. They all assemble
on the lakes of the Delta, which are not far from
Rossetta and Damietta, and form innumerable
flocks which do not take their departure till after
winter. They are caught with nets; and this
game, which was very productive, had not escaped
the fiscal tyranny of the Mamelucs or of their
overseers; it was farmed out, and was conse-
* Holcus durra, Lin.—Forskal, Flora Egyp.-Arab. p. 174.
f Tagttes erecta, Lin.—Forskal, ibidem, page 120.
3 quently
I saw besides several fields covered with a
species of large millet, which in Egypt is called
aourra *. It is an object of great cultivation,
which yields an abundant harvest. Its produce is
estimated at nearly fifty-fold. The Egyptians
make bread, or rather indifferent muffins, of the
seed of the dourra; they likewise ascribe to it
great efficacy in healing fractures of the limbs,
applying it when reduced to a powder.
The great Indian pink, or African -f~, displayed
its beautiful yellow flowers amidst other plants,
in different gardens.
We had reached the period in which wild
ducks of various sorts arrive from every quarter
in Lower Egypt. The smaller kind, as the teal,
come thither at the beginning of October, and
the larger ones appear later. They all assemble
on the lakes of the Delta, which are not far from
Rossetta and Damietta, and form innumerable
flocks which do not take their departure till after
winter. They are caught with nets; and this
game, which was very productive, had not escaped
the fiscal tyranny of the Mamelucs or of their
overseers; it was farmed out, and was conse-
* Holcus durra, Lin.—Forskal, Flora Egyp.-Arab. p. 174.
f Tagttes erecta, Lin.—Forskal, ibidem, page 120.
3 quently