[266] The Lydians had the same practice. It may account for their enduring the long famine, which led to the emigration of the Tyrseni, and for the provisioning of their ships.--See DRUMMOND’S _Origines_, b. vi. c. 7. [267] Lord Clarendon relates, that in the fire of London, a servant of the Portuguese Ambassador was seized and roughly handled, on the accusation of a citizen, who swore that he saw him throw a fireball into a house, which immediately burst into flames. The foreigner, so soon as the charge was translated to him, explained that he saw a piece of bread lying on the ground, and according to the custom of his country, picked it up and laid it on a shelf in the nearest house. The house was searched: the bread was found upon a board just within the door. [268] “We had quarters assigned us; I with one peasant, and my comrade with another. We had free board, and the peasants (Turkish) exercised hospitality as though it was a matter of course.”--_Wanderings of a Journeyman Tailor_, p. 97. [269] One of the charges against Koulayh Wail, the first tyrant of Southern Arabia, was, that he “monopolised hospitality.”--See _Lamgal Alareb_. [270] Africa, vol. ii. p. 193. [271] “If I have witheld the poor from his _desire_, or caused the _eyes_ of the widow to fail, or have _eaten my morsel alone_, and the fatherless hath not eaten with me. If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering. If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep.”--JOB xxxi. “Many, of course, were the Telzemi used against the evil eye. I have selected the hand only as affording the key. The Bulla were worn by the Etruscans, from whom the Romans copied them, as protection against it. The Bulla (_five_ in number) were likewise in use among the Arabs, but abolished by Islam. Most of them still wear on their necks the ornaments of infancy.”--_Motenabbi._ These ornaments were berries of plants, سخاب--CHREATH, _Arabe_, t. iii. p. 41. The Phallus was also used for the same purpose.--PLINY. Three together are sculptured on polygonal walls, in the Sabine territory at Zerui; and in the Etruscan land at Todi in Umbria, &c.--DENNIS, vol. ii. p. 122. Also in Lydia. See Fellows’ Lydia. CHAPTER III. THE HAÏK.