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| Chapter XI. The kind of food which is considered the greater delicacy by them.
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Chapter XI.
The kind of food which is considered the greater
delicacy by them.
I pass over, too, that
difficult and sublime sort of self-control, through which it is
considered the greatest luxury if the plant called cherlock,766
| 766 Labsanion.
Cf. below, c. xxiii., where cherlock is mentioned again, together with
other delicacies (!) of the Egyptians. | prepared with salt and steeped in water,
is set on the table for the repast of the brethren; and many other
things like this, which in this country neither the climate nor the
weakness of our constitution would permit. And I shall only follow up
those matters which cannot be interfered with by any weakness of the
flesh or local situation, if only no weakness of mind or coldness of
spirit gets rid of them.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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