dainty; they eat raw the fat of horses and oxen, and drink melted butter with avidity; but bread is rare.  The favourite food of the Kalmuc Tartars is horse-flesh, eaten raw sometimes, but commonly dried in the sun; dogs, cats, rats, marmots, and other small animals and vermin are also eaten by them; but neither vegetables, bread nor fruits; and they drink koumiss; than which, scarcely any thing can be more disgusting, except, perhaps, that beverage of the South Sea islanders, prepared by means of leaves being masticated by a large company, and spit into a bowl of water.  The diet of the Kamtschatdales, is chiefly fish, variously prepared; huigal, which is neither more nor less than fish laid in a pit until putrid, is a luxury with this people!  They are fond of caviar, made of roes of fish, and scarcely less disgusting than huigal.  A pound of dry caviar will last a Kamtschatdale on a journey for a considerable time, since he finds bread to eat with it in the bark of every birch and elder he meets with.  These people boil the fat of the whale and walrus with roots of setage.  A principal dish at their feasts, consists of various roots and berries pounded with caviar, and mixed with the melted fat of whale and seal.  They are fond of spirits, but commonly drink water.  For the Arabs, lizards and locusts, afford food, but with better articles.  The Persians live like the Turks, or nearly so, but for the want of spoons, knives, and forks, their feasts, if the provisions are good in themselves, are disgusting; besides which, the sofera, or cloth on which the dinner is spread, is, from a superstitious notion that changing is unlucky, so intolerably dirty and offensive in odour, that the stranger can scarcely endure to sit beside it.  With the Chinese, rice is the “staff of life,” but all kinds of animal food are eagerly devoured; and pedlars offering for sale rats, cats, and dogs, may be seen in the streets of Chinese towns.  It is uncertain whether a depraved taste or lack of superior animal food, induces a really civilized people to devour such flesh.  Weak tea, without sugar, or milk, is the common beverage of the Chinese; in the use of ardent spirits they are moderate.  The Peguese, worshipping crocodiles, will drink no water but from the ditches wherein those creatures abound, and consequently are frequently devoured by them.  The Siamese, besides a variety of superior food, eat rats, lizards, and some kinds of insects.  The Battas of Sumatra, prefer human flesh to all other, and speak with rapture of the soles of the feet and palms of the hands.  Warm water is the usual beverage of the Manilla islanders.  The Japanese, amongst other things, drink a kind of beer distilled from rice, and called sacki; it is kept constantly warm, and drunk after every morsel they eat.  Cocoa-nut milk and water, is the common beverage of the natives