B665 <=> B667 (BTG XXXVII France, p. 666)

“The day after my arrival in that contemporary Samlios, I inquired for a certain being belonging to a community called Persia to whom I had an introduction from one of my good friends existing in the capital of that community.

“This new acquaintance of mine, the Persian being, suggested in the evening of that day that I should go with him to what is called the ‘Boulevard des Capucines’ and sit for a while in the then famous ‘Grand Cafe.’

“When we arrived at this Grand Cafe we sat down at one of the many tables which took up, as is usual there in Paris, half the pavement.

“As I have already told you, a Cafe serves the same purpose for the beings on the continent Europe as their Tchai-kanas do for the beings dwelling on the continent Asia. The only difference is this: on the continent ‘Asia’ in a Tchai-kana they give you a certain reddish liquid to drink, squeezed from a certain well-known flower there, while here on the continent Europe, although in these establishments they also give a liquid to drink, yet that liquid is not only firstly completely black, but secondly, from what it is squeezed – no one knows except the proprietor of that establishment.

“We began to drink the black liquid served to us, called ‘coffee.’

“I noticed here also that all the staff of this Grand Cafe, or, as they say here, the ‘waiters,’ were beings from other groupings, mostly from the European community called ‘Italy.’

“You must know that in general in this part of the city Paris, or in this ‘foreign Paris,’ each business is a specialty of the beings of one or other of the contemporary communities of the continent Europe or other continents.