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much as their pots will hold, and eat till it becomes physically 

 impossible for them to stow away any more. An uproarious 

 dance follows, accompanied with stentorian song ; and as soon as 

 they have shaken their first course down, and washed off the 



and dust of the after performance, they go to work to 

 roast more ; a short snatch of sleep succeeds, and they are up 

 and at it again ; an night long it is boil and eat, roast and devour, 

 with a few brief interludes of sJeep, 



