The house to which our friend took us was built of wood, and covered with earthen tiles.  It had bamboo verandas, and a court-yard in front surrounded by a wall of coral.  The interior was plain and neat,--the rafters appearing overhead were painted red, and the floor was covered with matting.  The owner of the house, an old gentleman very like Hatchie Katsie, received us very courteously, and after we had sat some time, ordered food to be brought in.  Some long-robed attendants prepared a table in the chief hall, on which they placed a number of dishes, containing red slices of eggs and cucumber, boiled fish and mustard, fried beef, bits of hog's liver, and a variety of other similar dainties, at which we picked away without much consideration, but which might have been bits of dogs, cats, or rats, for aught I knew to the contrary.  The people of Loo-Choo must be very abstemious if we judge from the size of their drinking cups--no larger than thimbles!  The liquor they drank, called sakee, is distilled from rice.