Preparing for a Feast
	There is a time of the year when the natives feast each other.  For 
this purpose they choose special cooks.  These cooks take a great round 
earthenware pot (which they bake so well that water can be boiled therein 
as easily as in our own kettles) and put it over a large wood fire.  The place 
where the cooking is done swarms with activity.  The head cook empties 
the raw food into the large pot; another keeps the fire going with a small 
hand fan; still others pour water into a hole in the ground; women bring 
water in large vessels; herbs to be used for seasoning are ground on a 
stone.
	Although they give big feasts, they never overeat, and therefore 
usually live to a great age.  One of the their chiefs swore that he was three 
hundred years old and that his father, whom he pointed out to me was 
fifty years older than himself--and indeed he looked to be nothing but 
skin and bones.  Such facts might well make us Christians ashamed, for we 
are so immoderate in both our eating and our drinking habits that we 
shorted our lives thereby.  We might easily learn sobriety and wisdom 
from these men whom we consider only as savages and beasts.