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Show 3 PAPERMAKIN IN INDO-CHIN would alight from the cramped quarters of the car an sample the exotic confedtions of the locality. There wer theusual Tonkin delicacies: balls of boiled rice smothered in grease and studded with bits of browned pork, al garnished withstrips of red and green peppers,small bird roasted with heads and feet intad, their eyes and beak presenting a most dejected and wistful appearance, tin sparkling goldand ilver fish no large than minnows tha were dipped in sweet sauce and devoured by the hungr passengersin onegulp, cubes of browned goose fatstrun on cotton cordslike beads on strings,and garlands of fantastically-coloured sweets. I comforted my appetite b cating the gay rice balls held in shallow green leaves an by drinking very strong tea brewed from the flowers o the chrysanthemum. Village after village welcomed th rushing Renault and I noted a few of the names of th little communities where we stopped for refreshment Cho P.cii, Ban y nhan, Phé noi, My Hao,and Quén goi We had just lefi Quén goi on our way to the hamlet o Hai Duong when the driver looked at his wrist watchan noticed that we had tarried more than the allotted tim in Quan goi and the omnibus was considerably behin schedule. This called for still greater speed and the wide brown foot pressed the accelerator to the betel-staine floor of the automobile. The high-built Renault rocke like a leather-swung Western stagecoach with its weigh of Tonkinese, Anamese, and Chinese, to say nothing o the cockatoo, the pet monkey, and the lone America Digital mage© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |
