(Download) "Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877" by Various Authors * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877
- Author : Various Authors
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Antiques & Collectibles,Books,Lifestyle & Home,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1080 KB
Description
Even those whose knowledge of the customs of the Orient extends no further than a recollection of the contents of that time-honored story book, the "Arabian Nights", are doubtless aware that, since time immemorial, the date has been the chief food staple of the desert-dwellers of the East. The "handful of dates and gourd of water" form the typical meal and daily sustenance of millions of human beings both in Arabia and in North Africa, and to this meager diet ethnologists have ascribed many of the peculiar characteristics of the people who live upon it.