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A53649	A voyage to Suratt in the year 1689 giving a large account of that city and its inhabitants and of the English factory there : likewise a description of Madiera, St. Jago, Annobon, Cabenda, and Malemba (upon the coast of by J. Ovington.	Ovington, J. (John), 1653-1731.	1696 (1696)	Wing O701; ESTC R26896	238,999	640

the Day and when the Sun is in the Zenith will be half Roasted in a little time by the Heat Rains fall seldom It rains here but seldom and in some places of Arabia not above twice or thrice in two or three Years but the abundance of Dew which falls at Night refreshes the Ground supplies the Herbs with Moisture and makes the Fruits excellent The Muscatters for the most part are lean and of a middle Stature The nature of the Inhabitants very swarthy in their Complexion and not of very strong Voice They are stout and manly and expert at the Bow and Dart and since their ingagement in the War with the Portuguese are excellent Marks-men and very dexterous and ready in the exercise of Fire-Arms in which they Employ always some part of the Day The Ground yields them variety of excellent Fruits as Oranges Lemons Citrons Grapes Apricocks and Peaches and most sorts of Roots and green Herbs But the Staple Commodity of the Country is Dates Dates the chief Commodity of which there are whole Orchards for some Miles together They have so much plenty of this Fruit for which they have so ready a vent in India that several Ships are sent thither loaded from hence without any other Cargo The Hills are bare The Hills are generally all steril and bare and he that takes only a prospect of them would conclude the Land quite uninhabitable and unable to afford either sustenance for Man or nourishment for Beast For the Soil there languishes for want of Moisture and the ground is dried up like a barren Wilderness The Valleys fruitful the Earth brings forth neither Grass nor Flowers nor Trees with either Leaves or Fruit. But casting his Eyes down into the Valleys he sees them all flourishing and green and cover'd with Vegetables fit for the Pleasure and Refreshment of Animals and very Beautiful to Admiration There are Arable Fields and green Pastures Fruit-Trees that look neither wither'd nor faded nothing there is Barren or Unprofitable but bountiful Nature compensates with the fruitfulness of the Valleys for the nakedness of the Hills so that here if upon their Tops a Man would be apt to think himself among the Lybian Wastes yet let him but descend lower The Watering their Trees and he would fancy himself in the pleasant Fields of Tempe All this is due to the Industry of the People who for want of Rains are forc'd to water their Gardens every Morning and Evening by the labour of the Ox who draws the Water twice a day to the Root of every Tree in their Gardens There are several Channels cut out in the ground for the Water to run thro' and at the Banks of these Canals the Trees are Planted near the Water for the Moisture and Nourishment of the Roots which together with the Mists that descend in the Night time preserve them fresh and green and very Fruitful Having spoke thus much of Arabia in general of the Extent and Situation of Muscatt and the quality of its Climate of the Stature and Complexion of the Inhabitants and nature of the Soil thereabouts I will now relate one thing observable concerning the Food of their Cattle and will then proceed to an Account of the Temperance and Justice of the Arabians of Muscatt for which two things they are more remarkable than any other Nation this day in the World Their Cattle here are fed with Fish Fish the Food of their Cattle which is a sort of Food that seems as Unnatural for them as for Fish to live upon Grass which is the proper Meat for Cattle But the Fish which they eat is not fresh and just taken out of the Sea but when a great quantity of it is caught the Muscatrers dig a large Hole in the Ground wherein they put it 'till it remains so long that it rotts and comes to a kind of Earth After this it is taken up and boil'd with Water in great Earthen Pots which makes a kind of thick Broth and standing 'till it is cool it is then given to the Cattle by which they grow extreme Fat and yet their Flesh is very savory not tainted with either an ill Taste or Smell The Food of the Natives The Inhabitants of Muscatt feed promiscuously upon either Fish or Flesh they eat Beef Mutton Goat and Deer and the Flesh of Camels is admir'd by them and is in repute for a Healthful sort of Meat But they are very nice and curious in killing those Animals on which they feed and which they refuse to taste 'till the Meat is cleans'd and washt from the Blood They abound too in many sorts of Fish and are scrupulous in Eating of some kinds of them such especially as have no Scales from which they totally refrain and esteem the Food of such as well as of Blood an Abomination The Soil affords abundance of Wheat which might be properly made use of for their Bread but the Dates are so plentiful so pleasant and admir'd that they mix them with all their Food and eat them instead of Bread through all these parts of Arabia both with their Fish and Flesh But of all the Followers of Mahomet and zealous Admirers of his four principal Doctors Abu Becre Osman Omar and Hali none are so rigidly Abstemious as the Arabians of Muscatt The great Abstinence of the Natives as well from the Juice of the Grape as other more common and innocent Liquors For Tea and Coffee which are judg'd the privileg'd Liquors of all the Mahometans as well Turks as those of Persia India and other parts of Arabia are condemn'd by them as unlawful Refreshments and abominated as Bug-bear Liquors as well as Wine He that would turn Advocate for any of these sorts of Drink and commend the Use of them as convenient for their Stomachs as fit to chear their Hearts and chase away Melancholy from their Spirits would be look'd upon as a vile Contemner of their Law and an Encourager of Libertinism and Intemperance They abhor likewise the smoaking of Tobacco and the warm intoxicating Fumes of that Indian Weed and constantly burn all that they can find brought into their Country Sugar Water and Orange mixt together which they call Sherbet is their only Drink such is their Antipathy to all Liquors that are warm and strong that in perfect Indignation they rased a Jews House to the ground that had only made some strong Waters Therefore they call themselves the strict Arabs the Chaste Mahometans the only true Professors of the Mussulman-Law and genuine followers of the Prophet To this degree of Abstinence they are all bred up who are Natives of this Region hereabouts thus they abstain from all those sensible gratifications of their Palates which may any way inebriate their Faculties and render the Mind dull and unactive and shun the Taste of any thing that may disturb their Person or raise up in them any irregular Appetites Nor is the