TRAVELS IN 
their faftiions and etiquette. It, however, 
prefented no idea of what we call a well ar- 
ranged table, with delicate difhes and the 
richeft viands. Magnificence here confifts in 
covering the table with a profufion of meat; 
and the heavier it is loaded, the greater is the 
honour, and the more, in their eftimation, do 
they treat their guefl as a perfon of importance, 
entitled to their attentions and efteem. 
We were three only at table, my hofl:, 
Swanepoel, and myfelf. Twenty grenadiers, 
after a forced march, would, however, not 
have been fuSicient to devour fuch a quantity 
of provifions ; the diilies themfelves were 
heaped, and that in the middle fupported a py- 
ramid of fix roafted fowls, which were all of an 
enormous fize. 
This profufion, which would have fatiated 
even ogres prefented to me the loathfome 
pifture of a farm-yard entirely laid wafte. My 
appetite inftantly forfook me ; and, endeavour^ 
ing to forget my difguft by dwelling on the 
caufe of my jotirney ftill prefent to my mind, 
* A kind of fabulous beings or monfters, faid to feed 
upon human flefh, and which make a confpicuous figure 
In Fairy Tales. T. 
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