ROASTING OYSTERS
In the first place, the shell fish called oysters are readily cooked,
or may be eaten raw with great satisfaction. I know not what our
people of Virginia would have done without them, and yet it was
only by chance or accident that we came to learn how nourishing
they are.
A company of our gentlemen had set off to explore the country
very shortly after we came ashore from the fleet, and while going
through that portion of the forest which borders upon the bay,
happened upon four savages who were cooking something over the
fire.
The Indians ran away in alarm, and, on coming up to discover what
the brown men had which was good to eat, the explorers found a
large number of oysters roasting on the coals. Through curiosity,
one of our gentlemen tasted of the fish, and, much to his surprise,
found it very agreeable to the stomach.
Before telling his companions the result of his experiment, he ate
all the oysters that had been cooked, which were more than two dozen
large ones, and then, instead of exploring the land any further
on that day, our gentlemen spent their time gathering and roasting
the very agreeable fish.
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