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lieve the fact has been much controverted, immediately as it is cut from the living animals. The _Bisharye_, a tribe of Bedouin Arabs, eat raw flesh, drink raw sheep's blood, and esteem the raw marrow of camels their greatest dainty. The _Patagonians_ eat raw flesh with no regard to cleanliness. The _Greenlanders_ subsist on fish, seals, and sea-fowls, prepared and devoured in manners truly disgusting; train-oil is their sauce, and the blood of seals, their favourite beverage! Some of the _North American Indians_ diet on the flesh of the sea-dog, parts of the whale and its fat, and an oil made of the blubber of both of these animals. Whilst, singular is the contrast, some of the _South American_ tribes, are able to digest monkeys, blackened in, and dried by fire, to such a degree of wood-like hardness, as to be rendered capable of keeping, we dare not say how long. _Chacun a son gout_, says one proverb, but we trust that the readers of this paper will, whenever they feel themselves inclined to quarrel with _English_ fare, pause, and remember, another, viz.:--"A man may go further and fare worse." M.L.B * * * * * Manners & Customs of all Nations. * * * * * SINGULAR TENURE. Among the records in the Tower of London, is one to the following effect:--King John gave several lands at Kipperton and Alterton, in Kent, to Solomon Atlefield to be held by this service:--"That as often as the King should please to cross the sea, the said Solomon or his heirs, should be obliged to go with him, to hold his majesty's head if there be occasion for it;" that is, should his majesty be sea-sick. And it appears by the record, that this same office of head-holding was accordingly performed afterwards, in the reign of Edward the First. R.S. * * * * * BOROUGH-ENGLISH. (_For the Mirror_.) The custom of the manor of Woodford, Essex, is _Borough-English_, by which the youngest son inherits. The origin of this custom has been a subject of much dispute; but it appears to have prevailed greatly among the East Saxons. Dr. Plot conjectured, that it was introduced by the lord of the manor's claiming the right of enjoying the bride, daughter of his tenant, on the wedding-night; therefore the villain or slave, doubting whether the eldest son was his own, made the youngest his heir. This custom prevailed among the
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