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The disturbance this professor of gastronomy made - \ n | Jjje ship was unceasing , and the mirth he created unequalled . When he was wrought up to his highest pitch of rage , the best scene in a pantomime was nothing to it ; and certainly no
description of mine can convey an adequate idea of the fury of his actions , or the exquisite sputtered riddles of his broken English . Though the above sketch seems high-coloured , it is no caricature , and barely does justice to the character , as a few forthcoming circumstances will prove . Yet , with all his
irascibility , none of the men in the vicinity of his " cuisine " feared him : that pale , soddened , fat , was not muscle ; he could not fight after the English fashion , and he generally spent his fury in vain , to the infinite mirth of the crowds assembled . Upon one occasion , indeed , the ship ' s baker , a much smaller man , would have beaten him to dough and batter ,
if they had not been separated . Nevertheless , I believe , if they had taken a sword a-piece the " chief baker" would very speedily have gone to his fathers . It was the occurrence of one of these riots , during the absence of the party ashore , that induced me to mention the said personage in this place . I w ^ s called away from the scene by a sudden message from the First Lieutenant , requiring my immediate presence on the quarterdeck .
On arriving there I found something was wrong by the faces around me , and going aft I there saw the Ambassador and Mr South very busy with their glasses . " I want you , Mr , " said the latter , " to interpret between the General and me , for they ' ve got into some scrape ashore , as I expected , and he wishes me to do something , though I can't make out what , " " I should not wonder if the Portuguese cresv have cut , and run ; " I remarked . " Why do you think so ? " said he , quickly .
" Because they have all taken their money with them girt round the waist . " ' Humph !—are you sure—where did you learn that—well , never mind , ask the General what his pleasure is that I should do , and then tell me what he says . " I found this no very easy matter , for his Excellency ' s French had so
extraordinary an accent , and his Spanish , which was by no means pure Castihan , was always spoken with such rapidity and elision , that it was hardly possible to catch any of his words . Neither did the expression of his countenance serve as any definite clue to his ideas , even now that it was momentous to
make himself understood as soon as possible . I have mentioned the immovable nature of his features before ; and now in this moment of excitement his habitual rigidity of muscle was so operated upon as to produce one of the oddest puzzles imaginable . His eyes opened and shut , his cheek-bones seemed to rise and fall , and his mouth was twisted into as many shapes
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Mexican Sketches . 25
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1837, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1827/page/27/
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