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39 Black soup, served at table to a young man suing for a young

woman's hand, signified a refusal. [Naganowski states that it is

"a thickish soup, made chiefly of the blood of a duck or goose,

vinegar, and spice."]

40 [See p. 333.]

41 [The bracketed passage was inserted by the translator.]

42 These barges (wiciny) are large boats on the Niemen, with

which the Lithuanians carry on trade with the Prussians,

freighting grain down the river and receiving colonial wares in

return for it.

43 [Zrazy in the original. "A national dish, prepared as follows:

Take good and tender beef, mince it fine, add a little butter,

spice, onions, salt, pepper, egg, bread-crumbs, make small pats

or cakes of the compound; fried, boiled, or stewed."-M. A.

Biggs.]

44 [Son of a bitch.]

45 [Goat-strangler.]

46 [The north-western part of old Poland, including the portion

now incorporated in Prussia.]