. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. eem, by heaping the table which twas placed before him with five times the quantity of food which the other tables ) After the dinner they drank wine together and were merry. * This conveys several indications of Euvptiau usages, at least in great families ;—that they dined at noon,—that moat was notbought of butchers, but was slaughtered on the premises, at least when an entertainment was to be given; and that this waslone only just before the meat was to be cooked. All these are still subsi
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. eem, by heaping the table which twas placed before him with five times the quantity of food which the other tables ) After the dinner they drank wine together and were merry. * This conveys several indications of Euvptiau usages, at least in great families ;—that they dined at noon,—that moat was notbought of butchers, but was slaughtered on the premises, at least when an entertainment was to be given; and that this waslone only just before the meat was to be cooked. All these are still subsisting usages. The cut shows the method employed byhe Egyptians in slaughtering cattle for food. Beef was their favourite animal food. They rarely ate mutton ; which is a most[emarkable circumstance, when we consider how prevalent the use of mutton has been in the East, and that, in fact, it is, in country, so much lighter and more wholesome than beef. t This beautiful clause is not iu the present Hebrew text, but is preserved in the Samaritan and Septuagint. t Gen. xliii. 27— [Egyptian House-] 130 HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Book II.
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