Arab Auguries

The Bedouius bíke angurles i rom bli-ds. A single raven iu one's patli u i vorv bad tofcen, buttwoareexti-emeFalen zoin-uvo green (i.e„ black) ones a fair omen. The Bedonins have mnny: otl.or siiporstitiona aboüt ftmmal. The aupem Uion as to ile flert of the rock Gad er, whicli l'aln.ei noled in iho Peuluaula of BiiiaUs imknuwn bere; but tijera is a snnilui idea about Uie monkeys wlncl. iicaiient Mouiit Kara. Tuew, ,' woro once men, who une to vwu w prophet. He set beforo them mUk and water, dlreoting tlicni to drink tho foi-i.ior mul pcrfaön thcirubliiuons wtUi tbé latler. Tho perverse visitoi-s dnink the water and waihcd wlth tho milk, and were transformed to monfcovstór Ihcir Uisobedieiiw. As tliey were once men,tliekr fliwli s not eateu. This logend is ulosely akiii to Wüat one reads in the fabuloua lustory ot early Arabia about Nasnasand the Wabar, m the graat andy desert.- lïolU these word are mouKey uaints, quite eurrent in the present day, though not reeognized by the lexicons. The "hitter is au ape, the tonner a inonkey witli a tail. Kxcept in Uns monkiey story, L cotild ttud uo ti-aco o the superstitious rojecüon ot the flesh of any animal. Üut some kimlB o flesh have a.magical virtue attaehed to thein. A man who witters lii any memOer of his body teeks a curo by .. ,„1 ni uní!" ftr fl ll' - eivti il"" tne coircspuuiiiiis i"" - - - r ena DTl.c hycna is also eaicn in the MihborhoodofBuezi,fora iriend o mine who shot cuio ncar tlic Wells ot Moses was ï-equested by the Bedouius to glve thcni a leg. A similar virtue attechea to the flesh u-f the geuisbok (Viullievliy,)a r!U& species ot antelope in the interior. Whcn eaion it draws an obsunato UoUet from a wound. - ticotsnutiu A Georgia paper givos this dcsci-iption of a Uumming bird's nest brouülit to its oilice : "It was set apoto a limb ot' a tree tho size ol' a raau's tlmmb, atul coateil outsiilu witli tho uioss of an oakr so as perfeffÜy to representa knot. It was a bout the sizo oí' a largo hickorv nut. au inch high, and con.strncied of'cotton and haiiv It contained two litüe wliite eggs about the üize of a cominon snap bean."