The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-30
A BRAZILIAN DELlcAcY.
Rash venturing beyond the Bounds o
f,tvtrl1aA CnnE.ry


"I'll have cold roast chicken, II you
can give me Leg" said one OF party
OF three young fellows who fell into the
chairs about small table at down.
| town restaurant on one Of those scorch.
| ing hot days OF July, that broke the
record at the Signal Service Bureau and
put to shame the momory OF the Oldest
| inhabitanI
"The same here" gasped the second.
| "I'm too limp even to read the bill oi
fare"
'Ore thing to eat seems about as good
as another" growled the third, Grossly,
as ho mopped the back OF his neck and
moved his chair little, so rs to get di.
rectly under the big revolving fans that
throw the hot air in by warm waves all
about the room. "Give me what the
other fellow ordered so long as it's
cold"
! Thedarkey who waited on them seemed
about to speak, but checked himself and
approached the hole in the partition be.
hind which the cook presided. He gave
his three orders in u low tone of voice,
as il the furnace-like blast from the
range which came out of the hole choked
him. But in second the cooks angry
voice was heard saying: ''Three more
legs of chicken! | told you to say there
were no moro legs. What's every body
wanting legs for to-day? Tell 'em there g
nothing but breast and wings left"
"Gemmen say they won't have the
white meat this weather." replied the
darkey, ''they say it makes 'em thirsty,
add they've drunk all they can carry
straight, already, trying to keep cool. y
81 can't help that" snapped the cook
81 can't cut more than two legs off one
chicken. Ask them do they want the
earth. Do they think fowls is cent?.
pedes?"
| The indignant reply of the cook made
the three customers laugh, in spite Of
the heat. "Talking of centipedes," said
one, "reminds me of dish ate once in
Brazil. went away up the Amazon one
winter among the wretched Indians
there, buying up raw rubber. Several OF
us left the boat one day and made our
way into tho dense forest to see IL we
could shoot any toucans. We got lost in
| short order ard wandered about for 9
day and night before we found the lit
tie creek in which our boat lay, and we
were only brought back then by some
Indians whom we met carrying rubber
to the river to sell. We met them just
as they were about to camp for the
night, and as they promised to show us
the way out of the forest, we camped
with them.
"We had some timed beef left and
some whisky, but as | had lived or
timed beef and fresh fish for some time
and was nightly tired of them both,
was looking about for a change of die
and was glad to see that the Indians
had some native food with them. This
consisted of some sort of grayish-white
| paste, that looked like a mixture of sue'
and 'grits.' 1 asked them what it was
but / could not understand what they
said, and our interpreter had gone of
for water. 1t did not taste at all bad
and the flavor was unlike any thing
had ever eaten, so / had swallowed {
bit of it about as big as your fist before
! tho interpreter returned and told me
that the dish was made OF some sort of
dried root, pulverized and mixed with
the crushed body of white ants.
81 did not eat any more. IN. Y.
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