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Hi, All!

In the translation of Jules Verne's "The Voyages and Adventures of Captain
Hatteras" (project Gutenberg) there are these "table" sentences:

-----Beginning of the citation-----
Hatteras unfolded on the table one of the excellent charts published
in 1859 by the order of the Admiralty.

..."Here is the chart of the Polar Seas," resumed the doctor, who had
brought it to the table;


... Johnson and Bell had a good supper awaiting them.
But before they sat down to table, the doctor said in a voice of
triumph, as he pointed to his two companions,--
----- The end of the citation -----

Can you say a formal excuse why "table" in the last sentence is used without
any article?

Bye, All!
Alexander Koryagin

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