Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War.: With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions

of a thinnish nature, and given in much larger quantities than by the English doctors to patients affected with similar diseases;--my opinion on the subject being, that for the man who has lived too well, a close and light diet is most beneficial, his blood being too rich; while the debilitated soldier’s blood requires regenerating: which caused me to submit succulent diets for dysentery and diarrhœa, and cooling ones for fever. CHAPTER XXVI. MY SECOND TRIP TO THE CRIMEA. Off in the _Ottawa_--A calm in the Bosphorus--Deceitful appearances--Captain Bone--Fellow-passengers--A concert in the Black Sea--Intrepidity of P. M.--My Zouave--Harmony in my culinary troop--A tremendous crash--Change of scene--Alarm of P. M.--A bad passage--A fit of the blues--Reflections--Visits--Fresh faces--Off to the Camp--Colonel Steele--A note from my Zouave--French head-quarters--The lost found--Standing treat--The cantinière--Return to the _Ottawa_--Bornet’s excuses--La petite Mère Jouvin--Effects of enthusiasm--Character of the Zouaves--Remove to the _Baraguay d’Hilliers_. Two days later, I and my people started on board the _Ottawa_. The day of our departure was magnificently fine; the Bosphorus and Black Sea looked like a sheet of glass. I remarked to the captain, “One might cross the Black Sea in a caique.” “Yes,” he replied, “in its present state; but who knows how soon we may have it dancing mountains high? I have seen it so before; and where would you be with your caique then, Monsieur Soyer?” “Of course, you are right, captain; but I suppose it is not often thus at this time of the year.” “Even at this time of year, I should be sorry to be one of the caidjees.” Captain Bone was a very agreeable man--high-bred--educated at Oxford--well stored with _bons-mots_ and good anecdotes--always laughing at other people’s jokes as well as his own--very severe on deck and very funny with his friends. He kept a good cook, and therefore a good table, looking sharply after it himself--spending, probably, no more money than other captains, but faring better--very anxious to please his passengers--and at all times very liberal. The proverb says, “Speak of a man as you find him;” and in this manner I speak of the