The guests, although from politeness hesitating between each gourd-ful, are only too delighted to comply with this inviolable rule, which speaks eloquently for their constitutions.
The seat beside the distributer is the most coveted.

I, too, was always glad to get it, because it gave me the best chance to observe the behaviour of the Indians at the feasts.

The dispenser establishes himself close to the big jar, and being immensely popular with everybody he is never left alone.

The geniality of the Tarahumares, their courteousness and politeness toward each other in the beginning of a feast, is, to say the least, equal to that of many a civilised gentleman.

When the cup is offered to anyone, he most urgently protests and insists that the distributer shall drink; often this remonstrance is heeded, but the gourd is never emptied; something is always left in it, and this the guest has to take, and a second gourdful is immediately held out to him.