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| 5 | 141 | Festival was important to them. |
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| 5 | 138 | There were View more quotes about children">children about the periphery of the circles but many of them were already asleep on the rence. |
| 5 | 139 | There had been much talking and singing. |
| 5 | 140 | I gathered it was seldom the rencers, save for those on a given island, met one another. |
| 5 | 141 | Festival was important to them. |
| 5 | 142 | Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the island by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans. |
| 5 | 143 | During most of the feast I had been used in the serving, particularly the serving of the girls who had competed for me, one of whom had won me, which one I did not know. |
| 5 | 144 | I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer. |