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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 hook 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: 
