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In Egypt the drink is affected chiefly by Berbers, Nubians and

slaves from the Upper Nile, but it is a superior article and more

like that of Europe than the "Pombe." I have given an account of

the manufacture in The Lake Regions of Central Africa, vol. ii.,

p. 286. There are other preparations, Umm-bulbul (mother

nightingale), Dinzayah and Subiyah, for which I must refer to the

Shaykh El-Tounsy.

[FN#124] There is a terrible truth in this satire, which reminds

us of the noble dame who preferred to her handsome husband the

palefrenier laid, ord et infame of Queen Margaret of Navarre

(Heptameron No. xx.). We have all known women who sacrificed

everything despite themselves, as it were, for the most worthless

of men. The world stares and scoffs and blames and understands

nothing. There is for every woman one man and one only in whose

slavery she is "ready to sweep the floor." Fate is mostly opposed

to her meeting him but, when she does, adieu husband and

children, honour and religion, life and "soul." Moreover Nature

(human) commands the union of contrasts, such as fair and foul,

dark and light, tall and short; otherwise mankind would be like

the canines, a race of extremes, dwarf as toy-terriers, giants

like mastiffs, bald as Chinese "remedy dogs," or hairy as

Newfoundlands.