A Collection of Late Voyages and TravelsThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1797 Excerpt: ... bids them to eat the dobba, the fox, the jackal, the jar bus, the ibnars, a kind of large rats, perhaps weafels, the rachsma, a large bird which lives on carrion, the bagdad a bird of prey, the dob, the difada, that is a fort of crane, the ghunseed, that is the hedge-hog, the selhafad, that is the tortoise, the simbur, that is the wasp, the serpent, the scorpion, Sec. I was also told at Bafra, that the Hanesites were enjoined not to eat the slesh of the horse. Of all the animals which live in the water, the Mahometans eat none but sisli, and not every kind of them. Thofe which are considered pure, ought, according to the books of the ancient Mahometan divines, to be taken in a net, or with the hand, alive, after the water has lest them dry. Notwithstanding this, they are taken, at least in the Euphrates, with the hook, or with a grain which intoxicates them. The most learned among the Mahometans are sometimes not agreed upon the qualities of the sish which they are allowed to eat; for the Schfaci and Malefci, permit them to eat sish found dead, provided they are not stinking. The Hanesi and the Hanbali forbid this. Some have disputed, if a piece of sish which swims on the water may be eaten; and the opinion is, that it is lawsul, when they sind any mark that the sish has been killed with a knise or a fabre, because they then presume that the words bismallah akbar have been pronounced upon the occasion. I do not remember ever seeing sish alive among Mahometan sisherman. The sishermen who belong to Dsjidda, and Loheia, never drag them to land until they are dead. No doubt they make a wound in their throat, lest they should die and become impure. Nevertheless the Mahometans are not so zealous for their religion as to endure hunger, or death, rather than eat a... |
