20 MAY 1865, Page 1
The Emperor Napoleon has been eating an African dinner, with
tortoise broth for turtle soup, porcupine, gazelle, and loin of the wild boar for paces de resistance, salmis of Carthaginian hens, antelope cutlets, and bustards for entrées, an ostrich for a roast, and for side. dishes ostrich eggs in the shell, pomegranate jelly, and all manner of sweetmeats with unpronounceable names like " scerakboracs." Ostrich by way of roast chicken must be tough eating, and we wonder the Governor, who was his host, did not add a slice or two of lion to the entrées and pickled rhino- ceros' foot to the side dishes. They certainly would digest much
better than Arab sweetmeats, which, with the exception of " hulwah," are abominable.
