It Is Then Put Into An Earthen Pot, Whose Bottom Is Perforated With A Number Of Small Holes; And This Pot Being Placed Upon Another, The Two Vessels Are Luted Together, Either With A Paste Of Meal And Water, Or With Cow's Dung, And Placed Upon The Fire.

In the lower vessel is commonly some animal food and water, the steam or vapour of which ascends through

The perforations in the bottom of the upper vessel, and softens and prepares the _kouskous_, which is very much esteemed throughout all the countries that I visited. I am informed, that the same manner of preparing flour is very generally used on the Barbary coast, and that the dish so prepared is there called by the same name. It is therefore probable, that the Negroes borrowed the practice from the Moors.

For gratifying a taste for variety, another sort of pudding, called _nealing_, is sometimes prepared from the meal of corn; and they have also adopted two or three different modes of dressing their rice. Of vegetable food, therefore, the natives have no want, and although the common class of people are but sparingly supplied with animal food, yet this article is not wholly withheld from them.

Their domestic animals are nearly the same as in Europe. Swine are found in the woods, but their flesh is not esteemed; probably the marked abhorrence in which this animal is held by the votaries of Mahomet has spread itself among the Pagans. Poultry of all kinds (the turkey excepted) is every where to be had.

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