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A Cruise Among the Windward Islands: Being Ten Letters Published in the ...
Thomas Elkinton
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The boats of Martinique being small, our purser kindly took us ashore in the ship's boat, and we landed, as it were, in an unknown world, with a people of a strange language, nominally French, but one that the natives of France can hardly understand. The few words imperfectly remembered from the French lessons of our school days, passed for little in this island dia- lect, though they gave us some assistance now and then.
We reached the hotel, and with extraordinary labor, made our wants for br
...eakfast known, as we did not Digitized by Google THE WINDWARD ISLANDS. 23 wish to wait from our early morniDg ooflFee till eleven for a meal. First bread was handed in a basket in nice large rolls or small loaves. We had mentioned eggs, and a tureen of them in warm water stood before us, which we were obliged to ask to be placed on the fire awhile for us. The next course was a fine dish of beefsteak with radishes; then birds with water-cress were served. The luxury of the meal was the next course, a dish of French peas, small and delicious, then nice strawberries.

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