Re: Bread, Milk


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Posted by Adam Quinan on June 19, 2005 at 02:21:55 from 65.48.152.132 user Adam.

In Reply to: Re: Bread, Milk posted by Alan Hakim on June 18, 2005 at 18:27:52:

Alan Hakim wrote: There are historic 18th-19th century ice houses in India. They used to bring in blocks of ice by ship from the arctic, and use them to preserve food.

Actually the ice came from New England in insulated ships, as Kipling mentions in his story 'The Undertakers' from the Second Jungle Book. The Adjutant stork is telling his tale:
"From the insides of this boat they were taking out great pieces of white stuff, which, in a little while, turned to water.
Much split off, and fell about on the shore, and the rest they swiftly put into a house with thick walls. But a boatman, who laughed, took a piece no larger than a small dog, and threw it to me. I--all my people--swallow without reflection, and that piece I swallowed as is our custom. Immediately I was afflicted with an excessive cold which, beginning in my crop, ran down to the extreme end of my toes, and deprived me even of speech, while the boatmen laughed at me. Never have I felt such cold. I danced in my grief and amazement till I could recover my breath and then I danced and cried out against the falseness of this world; and the boatmen derided me till they fell down.
The chief wonder of the matter, setting aside that marvellous coldness, was that there was nothing at all in my crop when I had finished my lamentings!"

The Adjutant had done his very best to describe his feelings after swallowing a seven-pound lump of Wenham Lake ice, off an American ice-ship, in the days before Calcutta made her ice by machinery;


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