During All
This Time, - Which Would Have Startled Dr. Graham - We Lived Upon
Almost Nothing But Fresh Beef; Fried Beefsteaks, Three Times A
Day, - Morning, Noon, And Night.
At morning and night we had a
quart of tea to each man; and an allowance of about a
Pound of
hard bread a day; but our chief article of food was the beef.
A mess, consisting of six men, had a large wooden kid piled up
with beefsteaks, cut thick, and fried in fat, with the grease
poured over them. Round this we sat, attacking it with our
jack-knives and teeth, and with the appetite of young lions,
and sent back an empty kid to the galley. This was done three
times a day. How many pounds each man ate in a day, I will not
attempt to compute. A whole bullock (we ate liver and all) lasted
us but four days. Such devouring of flesh, I will venture to say,
was seldom known before. What one man ate in a day, over a hearty
man's allowance, would make a Russian's heart leap into his mouth.
Indeed, during all the time we were upon the coast, our principal
food was fresh beef, and every man had perfect health; but this
was a time of especial devouring; and what we should have done
without meat, I cannot tell. Once or twice, when our bullocks
failed and we were obliged to make a meal upon dry bread and
water, it seemed like feeding upon shavings.
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