A STRANGE FEAST. 1G3 



inhabitants of the 140 houses which g-o to 

 make up Gebi. In the pots were seething 

 huge messes of tripe and other tid-bits, of 

 which a burly cook offered us a sample on 

 the end of a hug-e trident. Nor were the 

 kindly fellows content to let us leave them in 

 their feasting without something to cheer us 

 on our way, but insisted on our men canying 

 off a portion to consume later on. 



When all those gathered round the caldrons 

 have fed to repletion, the remnant of the 

 feast is divided amongst the heads of houses, 

 according to the number of souls in each 

 family, so that before night every morsel has 

 been cleared away. If they were as other 

 men are, what an opportunity there would be 

 for Cockle or Eno during the next fortnight ; 

 but as it is there are no doctors in Radcha, 

 nor any quacks, therefore perhaps indigestions 

 are unimpaired and appetites enormous. 



For half a mile down the river a little 

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