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Excerpt from Hunt's Yachting Magazine, 1870, Vol. 19 All the French shops in the Bus bab-el-oued arevery good, and as it is now Christmas time they are in full bloom and gayer than ever, and we were therefore enabled to prepare for own especial Christmas festivities in a very satisfactory manner. Our only dith culty turned out to be the turkey; the Beef, (two good sirloins, one for the forecastle and one for aft, ) the steward cleverly contrived to get the French butcher to out according to English notions, - whilst all hands fore and aft had been employed, more or less for the last day or two, in the composition of what turned out to be, two noble plum puddings. The one especially appertaining to the forecastle was a marvellous sight to behold, being such a mass of citron, plums, spice, ginger and foreign preserved fruit (introduced for the sake of novelty), and so covered as to its surface, with almonds and preserved fruits, with a sugar canary stuck on the top, in default of holly, that it made me bilious to look at it, and I felt quite sorry for the gig's crew, when they came to fetch us on board in the evening for our dinner, for they seemed steeped in pudding up to their very eyebrows, and it was painful to notice how heavily that dreadful condiment sat on each of them, and I should think the snoring that proceeded from the Violet Flower that night, might have been heard all over the harbour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.