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Melons: Only in (Numbers 11:5) the translation of the Hebrew abattihim, the LXX. and
Vulgate pepones, Arabic britikh. Of this plant there are various
kinds, the Egyptian melon, the Cucumus chate, which has been called
"the queen of cucumbers;" the water melon, the Cucurbita citrullus;
and the common or flesh melon, the Cucumus melo. "A traveller in the
East who recollects the intense gratitude which a gift of a slice of
melon inspired while journeying over the hot and dry plains, will
readily comprehend the regret with which the Hebrews in the Arabian
desert looked back upon the melons of Egypt" (Kitto).
