"No; the English are from the north, a colder country; the Arabs are from a hot country."
They.—"Are the Greeks like the English? and is their country near yours?"
"No; they are farther from us than Rome itself."
They.—"Do the English fast?"
"Sometimes; but when they fast they don't eat in the night time, like you; they fast day and night."
They.—"That's not good; that's not right. Do you fast?"
"Never, thank God."
The people bother my life out about fasting. Two young Touarick women came to me—
"Thou Christian! dost thou fast?" (they having never seen a person before who did not fast).
"No; the Christians don't fast."