When it came to my turn, I drank, for I was thirsty, but did not touch the food, excitement and fatigue rendering me incapable of eating: I now saw, however, that it was a thin oaten cake shared into fragments.
L'eccitamento e la fatica del viaggio mi avevano tolto l'appetito. Quando il vassoio mi passò davanti mi accorsi che la cosa consisteva in una torta d'avena.