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Show COMPLETE AND NOISY MEAL Traveler Surely Well Fitted With Abundance of Nourishment and "Music." The longest and noisiest dinner that -Mr. James Sibree, Jr., the author of "A Naturalist in Madagascar," ever attended at-tended was given by the governor of a town called Ankarana. About a score of officers were at the table and seven ladies. After a long grace by the pastor, pas-tor, dinner was brought in, and consisted consist-ed of the following courses: First, curry; second, goose; third, pigeons and waterfowl; fourth, chicken chick-en cutlets and poached eggs; fifth, beef sausages; sixth, boiled tongue; seventh, sardines; eighth, pig's trotters; trot-ters; ninth, fried bananas; tenth, pancakes; pan-cakes; eleventh, manioc; twelfth, dried bananas. And lastly, says Mr. Sibree, when I thought everything must have been served, came haunches of roast beef. Claret went about very freely, and at length some much stronger liquor; and the healths of the queen, "Our friends, the two foreigners," then those of the prime minister, chief secretary sec-retary and chief judge, were all drunk twice over, the governor's coming last; and each, was followed by musical mu-sical and drum honors. There was a big drum just outside on the veranda, as well as two small ones, besides clarinets and fiddles, and these were in full play almost all the time. Then the room was filled by a crowd of servants and aides de camp, and the shouting of everyone, from the governor dow7n, was deafening. deafen-ing. The old gentleman directed everything every-thing and everyone. I wa's glad when I could take my leave, after two hours' sitting, but I was not to leave quietly. The governor took me by the hand and escorted me home, while the big drum was hammered at ahead of us all the way. Youth's Companion. |