He described the life of the people, very little different from what it must have been in Noah's time.

For months he had been the only white man there, and had lived among them.

What had struck him was how little he had missed all the paraphernalia of civilization, once he had got over the first shock.

He had learnt their sports and games; wrestled and swum and hunted with them.

Provided one was a little hungry and tired with toil, a stew of goat's flesh with sweet cakes and fruits, washed down with wine out of a sheep's skin, made a feast; and after, there was music and singing and dancing, or the travelling story-teller would gather round him his rapt audience.