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3 416 EOOIX APPEARANCE.
4 The Saod of the oommon people is bread, kooroot, clarified biitter»
5 and oocmionally flesh and cheese. The shepherds, and the viUagni,
6 in spring, also use a great deal of curds, cheese, milk, cream, and
7 butter *. They also eat vegetables, and a great deal of fruit Those
8 in camps ()n1\ get inek»8» but the eettled iahabitaata have all oor
9 beat English li uits.
10 The shepherds eat much more butcher's meat tli;iii the luisbuid
11 men ; even these have it oceasionallv, ami no enLeriamment is ever
12 given without flesh. Mutton is the kind inost generalJv eaten. Thej
13 eat it fresh in sumiiu i . hut in winter liiev have a sort oi sjuoke-tiried
14 flesh which they call J .uujid, or Lundye. They ahnost universally
15 boil their meat, and make a very palatable soup, which is eaten Math
16 bread at the begiuuing of their dinner. When they vary from this
17 fA^i^lng dish, thej pteir their meat widi onions, or lUHke It into
18 fSUmm Some of 4^e shcpheida hnre a way of faakiiig mutton Uks
19 that naed in the aoullMea Ulanda» Thi^ cut the meat into pieces,
20 MMlendoseitinthealdnQfthedieciiy wUcfathe^pittintoaholeiB
21 the earth, and surround irifth ted hot stoncai Ji^st tbos drssscjd ii
22 said to be juicy and well tasted.
23 I describe the dress and food in so nfiu^ detail* because it la afipli-
24 GsU^ with some modifiostionsyto all the western A%^ianns.
25 The i^earance of the Dooiaunees is prepossessii^i they are stout
26 men* with good complexions, and fine beards, of whidi they always
27 enoouiage the growth, thou^ the young men clip them into shape i
28 they always shave a stripe down the middle of the head, and most
29 men crop the remainder } some, however, wear long curls, and sobm
30 of the shepherds allow their hair to ^row to its full les^gjih. all oyer
31 their heads*
32 • The cWiijeil butter keeps long without spoil ing. The cream is either conuaoxi
33 I mim, or a pMpanlioii called Kjnnsuk, whldi is made from boiled nflk, and la aone-
34 thiTir^r 1H:p rlniitpf? rreflJn. The brfad ib gt'nerally leavened aiid baked in ovrn = , of ^\hich
35 there is one in every bouae and tent. They also eat unleavened bread toasted on an iron
36 Ites IOm iilMt i* «Nd fiir oiift ctlui in Seodud.
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