In the Forest
63
On the bonfire.
The saucepans are not made to hang over the fire.
They are the ordinary pots for cooking on a stove.
Not suitable for a nomad life!
Now we've got to the reason why dysentery is raging.
In order to cook potatoes, cabbage, porridge—they place the pot near the fire, turning first one side and then the other.
The food cannot get cooked through.
It is burnt at the sides, in the middle it remains raw.
They eat this mixture of half-burnt, half-raw food—and thence arises this terrible dysentery.
The woman picks up what looks like a bundle of rags lying near the fire, and from it comes suddenly a little whine.
—I suppose you haven't a little powder
