Paddling under Palmettos — page 151: what you’re looking at

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144 Paddling Under Palmettos. It can be readily understood that the appetites of our cruisers, always good, became extraordinary at times. Their bill of fare was limited, but it was not variety they sought, only quantity. Let us see what Archie had on board, in order to get an idea as to how they fared. There were canned goods in the shape of con- densed milk, pound cans of corned beef, corn, suc- cotash, Boston baked beans, roast beef, chipped beef, and a few other things of like ilk. Then came a canvas bag holding some six pounds of ship bread, or pilot biscuit. There were also potatoes of two sorts, onions, oatmeal, flour, sugar, tea, coffee, rice and hominy. All but the first and second of these were kept in the mess chest of each boat. Besides these, there was a stick of bacon and some four or five pounds of pink salt pork. Down South the one is called breakfast bacon and the other bacon. Butter was carried when possible, and if eggs could be procured they were generally placed in the tin boxes holding flour, oatmeal and hominy. Thus it will be seen that the cruisers were in no danger of starvation. They might have been away from civilization a Gomicbooks