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removed, potatoes, pepper, and salt, which when one was hungry 

 and when eaten hot, on a cold day was not bad. At Galveston 

 you get blue fish, which are very good, and the finest prawns 

 I ever saw. There are besides fairly good and very cheap 

 oysters in enormous shells, costing one dollar a barrel, the 

 barrel meant being the one used for flour, holding two hundred 

 pounds. 



