om happened) they cured themselves
with the herbs which grew in the country; and when they had acute
pains, they scarified the part affected with sharp stones, and
burned it with fire, and then anointed it with goat's butter.
Earthen vessels of this goat's butter were found interred in the
ground, having been put there by the women, who were the makers,
and took that method of preparing it for medicine."

The custom of the Shelluhs on such occasions is exactly similar;
the butter which they use is old, and is buried under ground many
years in (_bukul_) earthen pots, and is called _budra_: it is a
general medicine, and is said to possess a remarkably penetrating
quality.

"They grind their barley in a hand-mill, made of two stones, being
similar to those used in some remote parts of Europe".

In Suse, among the Shelluhs, they grind their corn in the same way,
and barley is the principal food.

"Their breeches are short, leaving the knees bare;" so are those
worn by the Shelluhs.
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"Their common food was barley meal roasted and mixed with goat's
milk and butter, and this dish they call Asamotan."

This is the common food of the Shelluhs of Atlas, and they call it
by a similar name, Azamitta.

The opinion of the author of the History and Conquest of the Canary
Islands, is, that the inhabitants came originally from Mauritania,
and this he founds on the resemblance of names of places in Africa
and in the islands: "for," says he, "Telde[214], which is the name
of the oldest habitation in Canaria, Orotaba, and Tegesta, are all
names which we find given to places in Mauritania and in Mount
Atlas. It is to be supposed that Canaria, Fuertaventura, and
Lancerotta, were peopled by the Alarbes[215], who are the nation
most esteemed in Barbary; for the natives of those islands named
milk _Aho_, and barley _Temecin_, which are the names that are
given to those things in the language of the Alarbes of Barbary."
He adds, that--

"Among the books of a library that was in the cathedral of St. Anna
in Canaria, there was found one so disfigured, that it wanted both
the beginning and the end: it treated of the Romans, and gave an
380 account, that when Africa was a Roman province, the natives of
Mauritania rebelled and killed their presidents and g