Contempt for fit food. Poor men, and unplac’d
In free seats of their own, are all from Jove
Commended to our entertaining love,
But poor is th’ entertainment I can give,
Yet free and loving.”
Crevaux, op. cit., p. 556, remarks anent this subject: “On pratique largement l’hospitalité dans les grandes solitudes.” [↑]
[22] “Videmus lunam et stellas consolari noctem.”—Confessionum, Lib. XIII, Cap. XXXII. [↑]
[23] Codazzi also refers to this and other similar phenomena in his Geografia Statistica di Venezuela, pp. 29 and 30, Firenze, 1864. [↑]
[24] Among the Indians of Guiana, p. 384, by Everard T. Im Thurn. [↑]
[25] The Bolivian Andes, p. 201, London and New York, 1901.