They eat their Rice out of China dishes, or Brass Basons, and they that have not them, on leaves.

The Carrees, or other sorts of Food which they eat with their Rice, is kept in the Pans it is dressed in, and their wives serve them with it, when they call for it.

For it is their duties to wait and serve their Husbands while they eat, and when they have done, then to take and eat that which they have left upon their Trenchers.

During their eating they neither use nor delight to talk to one another.
[Their manner of washing before and after meals.] They always wash their hands and mouths both before and after they have eaten; but for others to pour the water on their hands is looked upon as an affront.

For so they do to them, whom they account not worthy to handle their Water pot.