pilafs

Updated: July 13, 2025

The cook whom we had on board was particularly careful about the ship’s reckoning, and when under the influence of the keen sea-breezes we grew fondly expectant of an instant dinner, the great author of pilafs would be standing on deck with an ancient quadrant in his hands, calmly affecting to take an observation.

Alexander William Kinglake - Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East