Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1862-02-20

RSDAY. FEBRUARY 90, 1862.
. wcll-known national skill in cookery ar,
i said to make palateahle dish of it,
BE- almost all the lower classes in Eng
: land. venison and game of all kinds are helc
in abhorrence, and SO are fresh figs
I BY the Australian savages. frogs, snakes
! large moths. and erubs picked out of rotter
: wood, ell Of which the English settlers turf
. from with disgust. are esteemed as dainties
but they are shocked at our eating oysters
Milk. as an article of food Except fo1
: sucking babes,) is loathed by the South
Sea Islanders. Goats have been introduced
into several of the islands; but the people
rleride the settlers for using their milk, and
ask them why they do not milk sows On
: the ether hand. dogs and rats are favorite
articles Of food with them
i These last Gas is well known) are often
eaten by the Chinese. who also eat salted
earthworms. and kind of sea-slug (Holo.
/ thuria. which most Europeans would turn
from with disgust
! In the narrative Of Anson's voyage is a
full account of the prejuli lice of the South
Americans (both Creoles and Indians)
against Turtle, as poisonous. The prison
ers captured in the prize ships warned our
sailors against eating it, and for some time
lived on bad ship-beef: but seeing that our
men throve on the turtle, they began to eat
it, at first sparingly and at length heartily.
And when set ashore and liberated, they
declared that they blessed the day of their
capture, which had introduced them to a
plentiful supply of wholesome and delicious
| food.
Horse flesh, which most Europeans would
refuse to eat except in great extremity, is
preferred by the Tartars to all other; and
the flesh of a wild ass's colt was greatly es-
teemed by the ancient Romans
AS for pork, it is on religious grounds
that Jews and Mohammedans abstain from
it Gas the Hindus do from beef;) but the
Christians of the East seem to have nearly
an equal aversion to it, and the like prevail
ed to great degree, till lately, in Scotland
also.
The large shell-snails, called Escargot,
was favorite dainty with the ancient Ro-
mans, and still is so in great part of the
south of Europe, though most Englishmen
would be half starved before they would
eat it,
1t is said that in Vienna the large wood
ants are served up and eaten alive! And
small landcrabs are eaten alive in China
| The Iguana, . large species Of lizard. Is
Esekoned1s great dainty il some eof the West
india islands. And the monkey and tie
alligator are eaten both Ia Africa and il
} South America, and some travellers who
have overcome their prejudiccs. have pro-
; nounced them to be very good eating. A
large crocodile or alligator, indeed, is said
to have strong musky flavor, but young
one tastes much like skate
Even when the same substances are eaten
lin different countries. there is often strange
difference in the mode of preparing them
Both we and the Icelanders use butter, but
they store it up without salt till it is rancid
and sour.
We agree with the Abyssinians in liking
beef; but they would probably object as
much to the Roast beef of Old England. ~
as we should the half-living morsels of raw
beef in which they delight.
AAolA0 udS UScu luCIOuOccu IuCO NEW Zod-
land by the missionaries. and the people
cultivate and highly esteem it. But their
mode of preparing it for food is to Europeans
most disgusting. They steep it in water
till it is putrid and then make it into kind
of porridge, which emits most intolerable
stencil.
Human flesh has been. and still is eaten
in many parts Of the world. and that by
people considerably above the lowest rank
of savages such as the Fiji Islanders. and
an Indian people called the Batta, who are
SAID even to have written language.
And even in cannihalism there are great
''versltles. Some nations eat their enemies.
md some their friends Herodotus relates
that Persion king asked the Indian soldiers
| that were IN his service. what reward would
induce them to burn the dead bodies of their
friends, as the Greeks did, instead of eating
them. They replied by entreating him not
to mention anything so shocking.
On the other hand. the New Zealanders.
before their conversion-who seem to have
considered that 1.-The proper diet Of mankind
Is man-seem to have eaten only their
enemies. Among the Australian savages,
an the contrary. it is said that if mother
nnds a young baby roublesome to carry
about. she will eat it (although she would
not allow any one else to do 50. under the
tall persuasion that she has merely deferred
Its birth, and that the next child she bears
will be re-appearance of the eaten one.-
" hen .re demonstrated with by the Europeans.
sne Will reply, "Oh. massa, he plenty
come again :"
Boned Turkey.
George Coleman and myself were chums
and. as natural consequence. roomed to-
gether. George possessed fine spirit for
fun' and when an opportunity offered
whereby he could outwit the faculty or the