I'jgi. on met nailing the navy, See. 127 



were salted, free of bone, and cut in small slices, with 

 a mixture of some coarse sugar, this kept much bet- 

 ter than in the usual way, and took up much lefs 

 room. I made the following use of it : I caused it 

 to be freih'ened with salt water let in upon it,, in a 

 tub never larger than the half of a hogfliead, or gang 

 cafk, and often much smaller, which was perforated 

 bj many holes at the bottom ; this being done for 

 six or eight hours, I gave it, after draining, a rince 

 with a small quantity of frefh water, perhaps half a 

 pint of water to a pint of meat ; as I must now talk 

 of meat not by the pi? ce or weight, but by measure. 

 Being thus rinced, the frelh water, now become salt, 

 was let run off; then a certain quantity of India butter 

 called gee, (good oil would do as well) was put into 

 the copper or iron pot, and just let come to boil, 

 which it presently does. -Then the drained meat 

 Avas thrown upon the boiling gee, which being stirred 

 a few minutes, the roots and vegetables, whatever 

 kind was on board, were thrown in with a very 

 little frefli water, and the whole so stopt by a well 

 fitting cover, that the contents were rather digested, 

 as cooks say, than stewed, consequently sooner done ; 

 by this means saving fuel. The lascars would 

 never touch any thing but what their own cook 

 {banderey) drefsed, and they sometimes mixed fifh 

 and flefh, making a savoury difli, of which the Euro- 

 peans had no objection to partake ; the vegetables 

 were yams or potatoes ; either the European or the 

 sweet, called the Spanifli onions, raw or preserved r.x 

 vinegar, mad(# of toddy drawn from the cocoa nut.trce ; 

 cabbage sprouts dried in the sun, and so preserved ; 

 jmiakius, which keep long being Jjung iu the air ; 



