Note 35 — Chapter I
Bernard Miall translation
Millet is an article of diet among the Latins of Southern Europe. The ordinary “minestra” or soup of the Italian wayside albergo consists, to English eyes, of a pint of hot water poured over a cup of bird-seed. Pounded, it makes a kind of cake or bread; when boiled it swells slightly and is partly digested.—[Trans.]