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He never failed to conciliate his more powerful neighbours by timely gifts of local delicacies gifts of dark-eyed virgins to grace their palaces, and frequent hampers of those succulent LANGOUSTES for which the coastal waters of the island are renowned, both items of the finest quality obtainable.
In fact, one of the first and abiding impressions of Bordeaux is that it is a great place for things to eat oysters from Marennes, lobsters and langoustes, pears big as cantaloupes, pomegranates, mushrooms the little ones and the big cepes of Bordeaux yellow dates just up from Tunis.
There are the little shrimps and the big hump-backed fellows, or prawns; there are the 'crangons' or squillae; and the big lobsters and the crawfish or 'langoustes', their spiny cousins.
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