MARK TWAIN

Everything calculated by reys—takes about a million
of them to make 6 bits—a thousand reys make one dollar.

Brown having heard that prices were very moderate
here, opened his heart and ordered dinner for 8 of us.
Here is the bill. It knocked him senseless.

dinner for 8 at 3000 equal 24,000
wine, 10 bottles, at 1200 equal 12,000
cigars 2,000

38,000

That is, $38. This is the dinner accredited to
"Blucher" in the Innocents.

Fayal, June 22, '67.

Mules and family live all together in one small room—
five in center—no escape for smoke save through small
passages built in walls. Hardly a chimney in the city.

Saw no graveyards. They say they do not reverence
their dead very highly; only a few graves arc well
cared for.

Wheat is threshed by oxen in the old Scriptural way—
"Ye shall not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the grain."
Wheat is worth yoc a bushel, but flour $12 a barrel be-
cause of their slow methods of threshing and grinding.
Corn is ground in private houses with a stone mortar, and
in a windmill. Near by they have a mule-mill to go, when
the wind doesn't blow.

Their plow is a wooden board shod with iron. Their
harrow is drawn by hand and has teeth as small as a
finger. Their cart is a basket hauled by cows, and the
axle and the wooden slab of a wheel both turn.

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