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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
and one more than seventy-five years, not one of
them had eaten a particle of animal food; and yet
I never saw more healthy-looking men. Hardier
men I have seen, for they are indolent in their hab-
its, take but little exercise, and in most cases show
a strong disposition to corpulency ; but I had some
little opportunity of testing their ability to endure
fatigue, and though the superior soon walked him-
self out of breath, the monk who guided us up the
mountain, and who was more than sixty years
•old, when we descended, after a hard day's labour,
seemed less tired than either Paul or myself. I am
aware that climate may make a difference ; but,
from my own observation and experience, I am
perfectly satisfied that even in our climate, invalids
and persons of sedentary habits, and, indeed, all ex-
cept labouring men, would be much benefited by
a total abstinence from animal food. I have trav-
elled for a week at a time, mght and day, not un-
der the mild sky of the East, but in the rough cli-
mate of Russia, and found myself perfectly able to
endure the fatigue upon bread and milk diet; and I
have been told that the Tartars who ride post from
Constantinople to Bagdad, in an incredibly short
time, never sleeping, except on horseback, during
the whole of their immense journey, rigidly ab-
stain from any thing more solid and nutritious than
eggs.
The night of my return from the top of Sinai, I
was awake when the bell tolled for midnight pray-
ers, and, wrapping myself in my Arab cloak, took
a small lamp in my hand, and, groping -my way
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
and one more than seventy-five years, not one of
them had eaten a particle of animal food; and yet
I never saw more healthy-looking men. Hardier
men I have seen, for they are indolent in their hab-
its, take but little exercise, and in most cases show
a strong disposition to corpulency ; but I had some
little opportunity of testing their ability to endure
fatigue, and though the superior soon walked him-
self out of breath, the monk who guided us up the
mountain, and who was more than sixty years
•old, when we descended, after a hard day's labour,
seemed less tired than either Paul or myself. I am
aware that climate may make a difference ; but,
from my own observation and experience, I am
perfectly satisfied that even in our climate, invalids
and persons of sedentary habits, and, indeed, all ex-
cept labouring men, would be much benefited by
a total abstinence from animal food. I have trav-
elled for a week at a time, mght and day, not un-
der the mild sky of the East, but in the rough cli-
mate of Russia, and found myself perfectly able to
endure the fatigue upon bread and milk diet; and I
have been told that the Tartars who ride post from
Constantinople to Bagdad, in an incredibly short
time, never sleeping, except on horseback, during
the whole of their immense journey, rigidly ab-
stain from any thing more solid and nutritious than
eggs.
The night of my return from the top of Sinai, I
was awake when the bell tolled for midnight pray-
ers, and, wrapping myself in my Arab cloak, took
a small lamp in my hand, and, groping -my way