New-York tribune., 1909-03-03
PIECES OF RESISTANCE
Canadian Camp Dinner Illustrates
the French Term.

To. boa or not 10 boa, that is the question;
and arrows of the amazon ar TO be served in por-
uons 70 the Canadian Camp as roast as ragout
or as plain stew.-With profuse apologies.
There were five pieces Of resistance at the
seventh annual dinner OF the Canadian Camp. at
the Hotel Astor last night. These delectabIe
dishes broied Pacific Ocean whale grilled
whale bluhber, roasted Amazon monkey, baked
Winnipeg pOrcupine and boa constructor outlets
And with these unusual food speciaties the chef
performed great stunts" BY comparison
the pudding produced from pair of gloves by the
cook of Cardinal RicheIieu Ike a plate of
melted ice cream.
The reporters who preferred TO depend on the
official news disseminator OF the Canadian Camp
Tor the epicurean analysis Of the food.
sured by that person that the boa constructor.
tasted musky. just like ordinary snake" One
newspaper man, braver than the others, tried the
blubber. He declared that It tasted like something
that only the hereafter can furnish and which
sounds like the contraction of te!ephonic saIuta-
ton. Somebody else suggested that eating monkeys
was a sort of primitive cannibalism. There one
hunter who said he had lived forty days boa.
constructor and never found it excuse for
ecuting Cleopatra dance.
The whale served last night duly under
the pure fool laws because 1t was of the canned
variety The blubber heretofore food for only the
japanese and Coreans. picked. Each of the
two hundred diners, and women, partook of
the nights delicacies, but there only little
Of each dish. The five pieces of resistance
SeINtu Oh one pate A portion OF DlubDer, similar
in appearance to piece Of fat pork, was about
the size of a two-cent postage stamp. The other
things were about the same size smaller, and
looked like ordinary meat. In each of the deli
cacies stuck toothpck bearing tiny label
with the name of the food Tho POSTMASTER said
that there had not been enough snake to go
round.
The menu had an artistic design showing a
finely laid dinner table the bottom, while on
the left and right sides. respectively, boa
constructor and two monkeys the latter hanging
from tree, while at the top a whale in his
natural aquatic element At the bottom of the
card was the inscription Dropping in for Din
ner''
Colonel c. J. Buffalo Jon"s. from the West
the guest of honor lie delivered illustrated
speech on his experience with the buffalo herds
and told of this animals habits.
John J. White, jr.. told OF Hunting in British
East Africa
John Jay White il, read a letter from the Rev
DR. Rainsfcrd former rector of St Georges
Church in this city. containing news of lion
hunt in British East Africa, where Dr. Rainsford
IS at present The letter reads:
Two men have been mauIed here since YOU left
another tossed :nree times by a buffalo. The man
a fash and caught his horse. The horse bucked,
broke the girths and pitched him into the lions
very jaws. He Clawed all over and his left
almost chewed OF Young ana strong
and whiskey, he is alive. It took nine days
bring him in. lie awful sight when he
got TO Natobi. The idiot tried to shoot the lion
There were Of them. the chewing was done
before the second man could diSmount That makes
one killed and four maulcd during the time | was
in the country. Two killed and nine mauIed
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