We were then conducted back to our lodging, but no food was given us, except a little millet in a dish, on the first evening of our arrival.

Having eaten nothing that day, we made a little broth of flesh and millet for our supper.

What I reproach Millet with is that it is always the same thing, the same peasant, the same sabot, the same sentiment.

Thus the Moslems form the millet of Islam.

It was resolved not to wait till the colony was destitute of provisions; and that, in order to hold out to the last extremity, all the inhabitants, without distinction of colour, or of rank, should have only a quarter of a ration of bread, and two ounces of rice or millet per day; to execute this decree, all the provisions were removed into the government magazines, and the general gave orders that it should be punctually followed.

Thence he made his way over a roughly paved stone causewayone of those roads that the Chinese proverb says is "good for ten years and bad for ten thousand"between endless fields of high millet to the biggest gate of Peking itself.