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Show I Hard Fare for British Sailors. Of tho food served to the sailors in tho British navy 100 years ago a recent re-cent historian says: "A ship's company com-pany had to start a crjilso upbn the old meat returned from various ships and routed out from the obscure cellars cel-lars of tho victualing yards. Frequently Frequent-ly It had been several years In salt beforo It came to the cook, by which time It needed rathor-a magician than a cook to make It eatable. It was of a strong hardness, fibrous, shrunken, dark, gristly and gllster'ng with salt crystals. Strango tales wore told about It. Old plgtalled seamen would toll of horseshoes found In the meat casks; of curious barkings and neigh-lngs neigh-lngs heard In tho slaughterhouses; and of negroes who disappeared near tho victualing yards, to bo seen no more. Tho salt pork was generally rather better than tho beef, but tho sailors could carve fancy articles, such as boxes, out of cither meat." |