Can't come out to bring you chop because too i-i-infra dig, for now I also biggish bug, the little bird what sit upon the rose, as poet sa-a-ays.

I tell these Johnnies bring you grub, which you eat without qualm, for Asiki Al coo-o-ook." Then followed loud orders issued by Jeekie to his immediate _entourage_, and some confusion.
As a result presently Alan's litter was halted, the curtains were opened and kneeling women thrust through them platters of wood upon which, wrapped up in leaves, were the dismembered limbs of a bird which he took to be chicken or guinea-fowl, and a gold cup containing water pleasantly flavoured with some essence.

This cup interested him very much both on account of its shape and workmanship, which if rude, was striking in design, resembling those drinking vessels that have been found in Mycenian graves.

Also it proved to him that Jeekie's stories of the abundance of the precious metal among the Asiki had not been exaggerated.

If it were not very plentiful, they would scarcely, he thought, make their travelling cups of gold.