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AND LOWER EGYPT. 34I
a preservative against a number of maladies. I
also ate some bunches of this fenu-greek. I did
not find it unpleasant, but I was far from experi-
encing, in this sort of repast, the same pleasure
with the people of the country. With regard to
its effects, 1 neither received benefit nor injury
from it.
The Egyptians do not content themselves with
devouring the stalks and the leaves of the fenu-
greek, they likewise make the seeds to spring up,
and eat the long shoots. It is a highly valued pre-
paration in their eyes, which possesses in an emi-
nent degree the virtues which they attribute to the
plant. To obtain a quick germination of the seeds,
they fill a basket with them, which they allow
to soak in a running water during two or three
days : they afterwards heat it up on a bed of straw
or grass, in order that they may become warm; they
cover a portion of the seeds thus soaked with little
earthen vessels, in the form of mutilated cones,
and open at top. It is from these openings that the
shoots, which very soon grow large, spring forth,
uniting themselves together, and they stop them
there by bending them downwards. At length
they lift the vessel filled with these young shoots,
and eat them with the seeds which produced them.
You may purchase twelve little pots thus stored for
a medina, that is to say, nearly a halfpenny of our
z 3 money.
a preservative against a number of maladies. I
also ate some bunches of this fenu-greek. I did
not find it unpleasant, but I was far from experi-
encing, in this sort of repast, the same pleasure
with the people of the country. With regard to
its effects, 1 neither received benefit nor injury
from it.
The Egyptians do not content themselves with
devouring the stalks and the leaves of the fenu-
greek, they likewise make the seeds to spring up,
and eat the long shoots. It is a highly valued pre-
paration in their eyes, which possesses in an emi-
nent degree the virtues which they attribute to the
plant. To obtain a quick germination of the seeds,
they fill a basket with them, which they allow
to soak in a running water during two or three
days : they afterwards heat it up on a bed of straw
or grass, in order that they may become warm; they
cover a portion of the seeds thus soaked with little
earthen vessels, in the form of mutilated cones,
and open at top. It is from these openings that the
shoots, which very soon grow large, spring forth,
uniting themselves together, and they stop them
there by bending them downwards. At length
they lift the vessel filled with these young shoots,
and eat them with the seeds which produced them.
You may purchase twelve little pots thus stored for
a medina, that is to say, nearly a halfpenny of our
z 3 money.