Note 80 — HISTORY OF AL-HAJJAJ BIN YUSUF AND THE YOUNG SAYYID.[42]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
i.e. On an empty stomach, to “open the spittle” is = to break the fast. Sir Wm. Gull in his evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons deposed that after severe labour he found a bunch of raisins as efficacious a “pick-me-up” as a glass of stimulants. The value of dried grapes to the Alpinist is well known.