Nobody knew just when the feast began.
Nobody set the table, for there was no table to set.
But the women brought bowls they had made out of hollow gourds.
Before the meat was half cooked everybody was eating.
A gourd
Some ate thick slices that had been partly roasted on the sharp sticks.
Others chewed raw meat from bones which they tore from the carcass.
The children sucked strips of raw meat and picked the scraps from the ground.