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gance of this heterogenous mass and mixture of food 

 for man, is as follows : viz., that if an epicure were to 

 order this dish only, he (the cook) would be obliged 

 to provide the whole of the above-mentioned articles." 



Even so : — but the cook has not told us, how 

 much of the expended money, he recovered by 

 selling (probably at prime cost) those parts of the 

 turtles and fowls, &c, which were not necessary 

 for his stupendous dish. But, all comment here 

 is absolutely useless. I will merely remark, that, 

 with the "garniture" alone, it would be quite 

 unimportant, whether the cook concocted his dish 

 with the ingredients noticed above ; or with the 

 " noix " and flesh of hawks, carrion crows, vul- 

 tures, foumarts, snakes, and waternewts. 



Were I to spend time in comments upon this 

 display of modern extravagance and vitiated appe- 

 tite, I would say zoologically speaking, that if 

 our well-known bird the owl, sacred to Minerva, 

 had been called upon for an opinion, it would 

 have gravely pronounced, that, a fox must have 

 presided at the committee ; an hysena have been 

 cook, and a stud of asses, the consumers of the 

 dish in question. 



But, let me return to the Island of Moro. 



St. Francis Xavier, notwithstanding the dismal 

 forebodings of his warmest friends, went boldly to 



