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IN AFRICA 



a different line of march to the kitchen. It was 

 fifteen minutes passing a given point. Each waiter 

 carried a dish containing one of the fifty-seven in- 

 gredients of the grand total of the rice tafel. You 

 helped yourself with one arm until that got tired, 

 then used the other. When you were all ready to 

 begin your plate looked like a rice-covered bunker 

 on a golf course. 





The Rice Tafel in Java 



Rice tafel is a famous dish in Java. It is served 

 at tiffin, and after you have eaten it you waddle to 

 your room in a congested state and sleep it off. 

 After my first rice tafel I dreamed I was a log 

 jam and that lumber jacks with cant hooks were 

 trying to pry me apart. 



As the recipe for rice tafel is not to be found in 

 any cook book on account of its length, we give it 

 here even if you won't believe it. To a large heap 

 of rice add the following: 



