554 FRAGMENTS, &C.

days without food. After suffering a privation of a day or two, they tie their (hazam) belt round their loins, every morning tighter than the preceding day, thereby preventing, in some measure, that action of the bowels which promotes appetite. A Saharawan will thus go five ox six days without food of any kind, in which case, when he reaches a habitation, or a (waK) cultivated spot in the Desert, he will drink about half-a-pint of camel's milk ; this remains on the stomach but a short time : he then takes another draught, which, with some, remains and gives nourishment, but with others it is also rejected by the stomach ; a third draught is then taken, which restores the ea:hausted traveller !

I have been assured, that instances have been known in Sahara, wherein a man has been without food of any kind for seven days, and has afterwards been restored by the foregoing regimen !