The same practice has also been
observed
among the people of Otaheite; who occasionally devour vast quantities of food.
Tacitus
Caesar (Bell.
Gall.
vi.
23) says, "They think it unlawful to offer violence to their guests, who, on whatever occasion they come to them, are protected from injury, and considered as sacred.
Every house is open to them, and provision everywhere set before them.
" Mela (iii.
3) says of the Germans, "They make right consist in force, so that they are not ashamed of robbery: they are only kind to their guests, and merciful to suppliants.
The Burgundian law lays a fine of three solidi on every man who refuses his roof or hearth to the coming guest.
" The Salic law, however, rightly forbids the exercise of hospitality to atrocious criminals; laying a penalty on the person who shall harbor one who has dug up or despoiled the dead?
till he has made satisfaction to the relations.
]
129 (return)
[ The clause here put within brackets is probably misplaced; since it does not connect well either with what goes before or what follows.
130(return)
[The Russians are at present the most remarkable among the northern nations for the use of warm bathing. Some of the North American tribes also have their hypocausts, or stoves. ]
131 (return)
[ Eating at separate tables is generally an indication of voracity. Traces of it may be found in Homer, and other writers who have described ancient manners.
The same practice has also been observed among the people of Otaheite; who occasionally devour vast quantities of food. ]
132 (return)
[ The following article in the Salic law shows at once the frequency of these bloody quarrels, and the laudable endeavors of the legislature to restrain them;—"If at a feast where there are four or five men in company, one of them be killed, the rest shall either convict one as the offender, or shall jointly pay the composition for his death. And this law shall extend to seven persons present at an entertainment. "]
133 (return)
[ The same custom is related by Herodotus, i. p. 66, as prevailing among the Persians. ]
134 (return)
[ Of this liquor, beer or ale, Pliny speaks in the following passage: "The western nations have their intoxicating liquor, made of steeped grain. The Egyptians also invented drinks of the same kind. Thus drunkenness is a stranger in no part of the world; for these liquors are taken pure, and not diluted as wine is. Yet, surely, the Earth thought she was producing corn. Oh, the wonderful sagacity of our vices! we have discovered how to render even water intoxicating. "—xiv. 22. ]
135 (return)
[ Mela says, "Their manner of living is so rude and savage, that they eat even raw flesh; either fresh killed, or softened by working with their hands and feet, after it has grown stiff in the hides of tame or wild animals. " (iii.
129 (return)
[ The clause here put within brackets is probably misplaced; since it does not connect well either with what goes before or what follows.
130(return)
[The Russians are at present the most remarkable among the northern nations for the use of warm bathing. Some of the North American tribes also have their hypocausts, or stoves. ]
131 (return)
[ Eating at separate tables is generally an indication of voracity. Traces of it may be found in Homer, and other writers who have described ancient manners.
The same practice has also been observed among the people of Otaheite; who occasionally devour vast quantities of food. ]
132 (return)
[ The following article in the Salic law shows at once the frequency of these bloody quarrels, and the laudable endeavors of the legislature to restrain them;—"If at a feast where there are four or five men in company, one of them be killed, the rest shall either convict one as the offender, or shall jointly pay the composition for his death. And this law shall extend to seven persons present at an entertainment. "]
133 (return)
[ The same custom is related by Herodotus, i. p. 66, as prevailing among the Persians. ]
134 (return)
[ Of this liquor, beer or ale, Pliny speaks in the following passage: "The western nations have their intoxicating liquor, made of steeped grain. The Egyptians also invented drinks of the same kind. Thus drunkenness is a stranger in no part of the world; for these liquors are taken pure, and not diluted as wine is. Yet, surely, the Earth thought she was producing corn. Oh, the wonderful sagacity of our vices! we have discovered how to render even water intoxicating. "—xiv. 22. ]
135 (return)
[ Mela says, "Their manner of living is so rude and savage, that they eat even raw flesh; either fresh killed, or softened by working with their hands and feet, after it has grown stiff in the hides of tame or wild animals. " (iii.
