in their centre , however , the people had laid out with surprising speed , since the visitors journey hadnt been a very long one everything needed for a proper feast : an great wooden table made up of smaller ones , with five high-backed chairs facing and surrounded by stools fashioned from stumps , and laden with loaves of bread , heads of cheese , bowls of fruit and vegetables and jugs filled with milk , wine and a hot drink made with honey , cinnamon and clove , whose smell hovered invitingly about .