Diet must be obtained in the same way.

In the quarantine establishment there is no host, every thing must be procured from without.

An innkeeper generally demands between thirty and forty piastres per diem for dinner and supper.

This I considered a little too exorbitant, and therefore ordered a few articles of food through one of the keepers.

He promised to provide every thing punctually; but I fear he cannot have understood me, for I waited in vain, and during the whole of the first day had nothing to eat.