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Updated: May 24, 2025
He rested his head on his hand, and lay looking at the savage with a pleased expression, while Rollin rose and went off to cut more firewood. The robbiboo referred to was a sort of thick soup made of pemmican boiled with flour. Without loss of time the party applied themselves to it. When appetite was partially appeased Ian propounded the question, What was to be done?
They sat in a circle round the kettle, each man armed with a large wooden or pewter spoon, with which he ladled the robbiboo down his capacious throat, in a style that not only caused Charley to laugh, but afterwards threw him into a deep reverie on the powers of appetite in general, and the strength of voyageur stomachs in particular.
Park, for the same reasons, besides being naturally taciturn, was equally mute, so they both enjoyed in silence the spectacle of the men eating their supper. And it was a sight worth seeing. Their food consisted of robbiboo, a compound of flour, pemmican, and water, boiled to the consistency of very thick soup.
Words are wasted in such an effort. We feel constrained to leave it as we have not seldom left many a thing before now to the reader's more or less vivid imagination. A blazing fire of pine-logs boiled two tin kettles and roasted two fat wild-ducks. In one of the kettles Archie compounded and stirred robbiboo of which, perhaps, the less said the better.
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