1 We found some fruit wherewith to break our fast.
2 However, I am telling you of my fruit dinner in the distant future now.
3 At first I was puzzled by all these strange fruits, and by the strange flowers I saw, but later I began to perceive their import.
4 The fruits seemed a convenient thing to begin upon, and holding one of these up I began a series of interrogative sounds and gestures.
5 They spent all their time in playing gently, in bathing in the river, in making love in a half-playful fashion, in eating fruit and sleeping.
6 Transverse to the length were innumerable tables made of slabs of polished stone, raised perhaps a foot from the floor, and upon these were heaps of fruits.
7 The air was free from gnats, the earth from weeds or fungi; everywhere were fruits and sweet and delightful flowers; brilliant butterflies flew hither and thither.
8 With a pretty absence of ceremony they began to eat the fruit with their hands, flinging peel and stalks, and so forth, into the round openings in the sides of the tables.
9 There were, perhaps, a couple of hundred people dining in the hall, and most of them, seated as near to me as they could come, were watching me with interest, their little eyes shining over the fruit they were eating.