debis

Updated: June 13, 2025

There were restaurants, cafes, debis de vin et d'eau-de-vie, sausage-sellers, butchers, grocers in fact, there was every trade almost, and everything you required; not very cheap certainly, but you must recollect, that this little town had sprung up, as if by magic, in the heart of the desert.

Frederick Marryat - The Poacher: Joseph Rushbrook