hidden there, sprang into the water and
swam over.
"I'm sorry we did not get the duck,
however," observed Peterkin, as we
returned to the place where we had left the
canoe. "Elephant meat is coarse, nasty
stuff, and totally unfit for civilised mouths,
though these niggers seem to relish it
amazingly."
"You forget the baked foot," said I.
"Well, so I did.
It was pretty good,
certainly; but that's the only part o' the
brute that's fit to eat."
Soon after this the canoe came back and
took us over the river; and we breakfasted
on the side where the elephant had fallen,
in order to allow the natives to cut off such
portions of the meat as they required, and
Summary :
"Elephant meat is coarse, nasty stuff, and totally unfit for civilised mouths, though these niggers seem to relish it amazingly."
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