. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . catching animals with the 64 THE NILE AND A SWINEHERD AND HIS those species from which he could draw profit, arid others whose wildnessmade them impossible to domesticate. The subjection of the most usefulkinds had not been finished when the historic period opened. The ass, thesheep, and the goat were already domesticated, but the pig was still out inthe marshes in a semi-wild state, under the care of special herdsmen,1 andthe religious rites preserved the remembrance of the times in which the oxwas so little tamed, that in
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . catching animals with the 64 THE NILE AND A SWINEHERD AND HIS those species from which he could draw profit, arid others whose wildnessmade them impossible to domesticate. The subjection of the most usefulkinds had not been finished when the historic period opened. The ass, thesheep, and the goat were already domesticated, but the pig was still out inthe marshes in a semi-wild state, under the care of special herdsmen,1 andthe religious rites preserved the remembrance of the times in which the oxwas so little tamed, that in order to capture while grazing the animals neededfor sacrifice or for slaughter, it was necessary to use the Europeans are astonished to meet nowadays whole peoples who make use of herbs and plants whose flavour andproperties are nauseating to us : theseare mostly so many legacies from aremote past; for example, castor-oil,with which the Berbers rub theirlimbs, and with which the fellahîn ofPort Saïd season their bread andvegetables, was preferred before allothers by the Europeans of the P
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