These three days of Byram they spend festivally, rejoicing with abundance of illuminations all night, shooting of guns, and fireworks flying in the air; for they reckon that all their sins are now done away, […]

The rehearsal dinner was held at a fancy restaurant.

With regard to the extent of this lake, we recur again to the testimonies above cited: Herodotus says, that the circumference of the lake Mœris was 3600 stadia, or sixty schenes, which, says the historian, form the dimensions of the maritime base of Egypt, (seventy-five leagues.)

Another representative, from Nanchang county, said: Our worker brothers work harder than we do, and are genuinely meritorious. We must learn from them.