Our supper certainly consisted of several courses brought in one after the other.

Had we known this, we certainly should soon have arranged the matter, for then each person would have appropriated the whole of a dish to himself.
In the space of an hour and a quarter nine or ten little dishes made their appearance; but the portion of food contained in each was so small, that our supper may be said to have consisted of a variety of "tastes." We would greatly have preferred two good-sized dishes to all these kickshaws.

The dishes were, a roast, a boiled, and a baked chicken, a little plate of prepared cucumbers, an equally small portion of this vegetable in a raw state, a little pilau, and a few small pieces of mutton.
Our host kindly provided food for the mind during supper by describing to us a series of horrible scenes which had occurred at the time of the earthquake.

He, too, had lost his wife and children by this calamity, and only owed his own life to the circumstance that he was absent at a sick-bed when the earthquake took place.
Half an hour after midnight we at length sought our resting-places.
The doctor very kindly gave up his three little bedrooms to us, but the heat was so oppressive that we preferred quartering ourselves on the stones in the yard.

They made a very hard bed, but we none of us felt symptoms of indigestion after our sumptuous meal.
June 16th.
At five o'clock in the morning we took leave of our host, and returned in six hours to Nazareth by the same road on which we had already travelled.