As a matter of course, the news of this discovery spread throughout
the settlement, and straightway every person was eating oysters;
but they soon tired of them, hankering after wheat of some kind.
Among those who served some of the gentlemen even as Nathaniel
and I aimed to serve Captain Smith, was James Brumfield, a lazy,
shiftless lad near to seventeen years old. Being hungry, and not
inclined to build a fire, because it would be necessary to gather
fuel, he ventured to taste of a raw oyster. Finding it pleasant to
the mouth, he actually gorged himself until sickness put an end to
the gluttonous meal.
It can thus be seen that even though Nathaniel and I had never
been apprenticed to a cook, it was not difficult for us to serve
our master with oysters roasted or raw, laid on that which answered
in the stead of a table, in their own shells.
LEARNING TO COOK OTHER THINGS
Then again the Indian girl had shown us how to boil beans, peas,
Indian corn, and pumpkins together, making a kind of porridge which
is most pleasant, and affords a welcome change from oysters; but
the great drawback is that we are not able to come at the various
things needed for the making of it, except when our gentlemen have
been fortunate in trading with the brown men, which is not often.
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