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One such warehouse we entered and beheld with stupefaction mountainous boxes of ghee and hogsheads of goor, rice, dried apricots, date-palms, and sultanas. Storekeepers in turbans stood round us, who, being asked whether it was well with the Indian and his food, answered us with a great shout, like the Ephesians, "Yea, the exalted Government hath done great things and praised be its name."
"No!" said he to me, emphatically, "better stop here two or three days, give your tired animals some rest; collect all the pagazis you can, fill your inside with fresh milk, sweet potatoes, beef, mutton, ghee, honey, beans, matama, maweri, and nuts; then, Inshallah! we shall go together through Ugogo without stopping anywhere."
Châtaka, a bird supposed to be very fond of rain, and to make a loud noise at its approach. Dhanamittra, husband of Kulapâlika, friend of Apahâravarma. Dharmapâla, one of Râjahansa's ministers. Dharmavardhana, King of Sravasti. Durga or Kâli, wife of Siva, a terrific goddess, delighting in human sacrifices. Gaurí, wife of Siva. Ghee, liquid butter, or butter which has been liquefied.
We spread our hides under a tree, and were soon surrounded by Bedouins, who brought milk, sun-dried beef, ghee and honey in one of the painted wooden bowls exported from Cutch. After breakfast, at which the End of Time distinguished himself by dipping his meat into honey, we went out gun in hand towards the bush.
Burckhardt introduces many anecdotes of interest into his account of the manners, mode of living, price of commodities, and number of traders in the place. Speaking of the singular customs of the natives of Jeddah, he says: "It is the almost universal custom for everybody to swallow a cup full of ghee or melted butter in the morning.
Lisle was able to keep his place till the end, feeling great benefit from the ghee which he had rubbed on his feet. The havildar, at starting, said a few cheering words to him; and told him that, when he felt tired, he could put his rifle and pouch in the waggon, as there was no possibility of their being wanted.
That man who having fasted for three and twenty days eats a little ghee on the twenty-fourth day, and bears himself in this way for a full year, pouring libations on his sacred fire, resides for countless years in great happiness in the regions of the Adityas, his person decked with celestial robes and garlands and celestial perfumes and unguents.
Of similar purport were the funeral feasts and oblations of food in Greece and Italy, the "rice-cakes made with ghee" destined for the Hindu sojourning in Yama's kingdom, and the meat and gruel offered by the Chinaman to the manes of his ancestors. "Many travellers have described the imagination with which the Chinese make such offerings.
Even the presence of a single Wazoo, or, more accurately, a single Wooz, would help. With each day the news became more ominous. It was reported in the Press that a Wazoo, inflamed apparently with ghee, or perhaps with bhong, had rushed up to the hills and refused to come down.
The Somal never fail to anoint themselves when they can afford ghee, and the Bedouin is at the summit of his bliss, when sitting in the blazing sun, or, heat acts upon these people as upon serpents, with his back opposite a roaring fire, he is being smeared, rubbed, and kneaded by a companion.
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