Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-12
SOME WONDERFUL APPET1TEs
Stories of GIuttony Anon
the Yakuts.

Remarkable Stories of GIuttony Among
the Sakuts.
In his savage condition man, when he
can get food, will eat till nature rebels.
and he cannot contain more; indeed, it is
one of the most unamiable traits of the
sayages that, while they will cheerfully
endure great hardships and privations
from which there is no escape, they will
on the other hand, eat to repletion when
the opportunity presents. In violent con-
trasts, therefore, to the instances | have
given of extreme priyation, / shall cite a
few OF just as remarkable excess. The
Hottentots, Bushmen and savage South
African races generally are enormous glut
tons. Ten of them," says Barrow, "ate,
in my presence, the whole of an OK all but
the hind legs in three days, and three
Bosjesmans that accompanied my wagon
deyoured sheep on one occasion in less
than twenty -four hours.n
In cold climates such feats as these
would only be trihes, and Parry and Ross
have recorded cases that, were they not
well attested, would pass belief. Sir Ed
ward Parry once tried the capacity of an
Esquimau scarcely full grown, and this in
terestlng young savage contrived in twenty
four hours to devour four pounds four
ounces of the raw, hard-frozen flesh of a
seahorse, the same quantity of it boiled,
one pound twelve ounces of bread and
bread dust, pint and quarter of rich
gravy soup, a tumbler OF strong grop. three
wineglasses of raw spirit, and nine pints of
water. Sir John Ross indeed believed
that the daily rations of an Esquimau were
twenty pounds of flesh and bIubber. but. in
extenuation of so enormous a CONSERVATION
as this the severity of the climate must be
taken into account.
Perhaps the most astonishing example
of human gluttony recorded is that by
Captain Cochrane, on the authority of
the Russian Admiral Saritcheff, who was
told that one Of the Yakuts had consumed
the hind quarter of large OK in twenty
four hours, togethx with twenty pounds
OF fat and proportionate quantity of
melted butter. As the man had already
gorged himself in this distressing fashion
it hardly seemed possible that he would be
able to consume any more; but the worthy
Russian Admiral, TO test him, gaze the
savage thick porridge of rice boiled with
three pounds OF butter, weighing together
twenty-eight pounds. The glutton sa,
down to this abundant banquet. although
he had just partaken Of breakfast. and
without stirring from the spot or showing
any sign Of inconvenience. got through the
whole. Captain Cochrane adds that a
good large, ealf weighing 200 pounds, will
just make a meal for four or five Yakuts
and that lie has seen three OF them con-
sumo whole reindeer in one meal.
Not TO be too hard on these unsophisti-
Gated children of nature, / must say that
the feats Of English workingmen on their
annual club feast day, would surpass belief !:
leg Of mutton has not been found too
much for the requirements Of one man.
The late DR.. Darwin, of Shrewsbury, the
father OF the iilustrious Charles Darwin,
had the local reputation of being glut.
ton, and is reported TO have called goose
IA favorite Salop dish" an inconvenien.
one, as being too much for one and not
enough for two."-7Ae Cog3lhia Adgaziae;