8377. They like to take a long time over eating, not so much because of a delight in food but because of a delight in conversation then. When they sit at table they do not sit on chairs or benches, or on raised grassy banks, or on turf, but on the leaves of some tree. They did not wish to say which tree the leaves came from; but when I made guesses, naming quite a number they at length said yes when I mentioned the leaves of a fig tree.