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278 TRAVELS
fervant, lodging, breakfaft, dinner, tea, coffee, and fupper included,
not quite two guineas a week. ;
Our fervant cooked our victuals tm the Italian fafhion, and the
people of the houfe were not a little furprifed at our manner of
dining. Our good hoftefs was quite uneafy to fee us dine every
day on foupe & bouillie, and it was not in our power to perfuade her
that we did it from choice, and not becaufe the had not a greater
variety of good things to fet before us. She endeavoured to vary
our meals with different foups every day; one day with a milk
foup, another with a foup of fago and raifins, another with a foup
of wine and milk, another with a foup of barley or rice without
meat. <A difficult and important difpute arofe between her and
our fervant on the following fubject: the would by no means
fuffer the brains and liver of a calf or pig to be dreffed; every
creature in the houfe was fhocked at the very idea of it. ‘They
are always ufed to give the liver and brains of all animals what-
ever to the hogs, or throw them on the dunghill. We pafled un-
avoidably for cannibals, or anthropophagi ; and fuch is the force of
prejudice, that having preffed a perfon to tafte the brains or liver,
he would not fwallow it, but fpit it out after he had tafted
it. Our attempts to convince them of their error, and to
fhew them the rationality of our cuftom, proved utterly fruitlef&.
They were likewife feandalized at our eating {mall birds, fuch as
larks, {nipes, thrufhes, upon all of which we fet a great value. In
thofe northern regions thefe birds enjoy a ftate of unmolefted peace
and fecurity: they not only were to us delicious fare, but afforded
us
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