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THE EXOTIC DRINKING BOOK
Virgins. Now for the benefit of those who haven't sailed those waters
we would like to remark that although this necklace of islands looks
on the map to be within cruller toss of each other, they are actually
separated by wide and rough cross-chop passages where the Carib–
bean and the Atlantic have a peas-porridge-hot game every six hours,
pouring tides back and forth. The natives, who sail things out of sight
of land we wouldn't use to cross an irrigation ditch, took one look at
that canoe with its 4" or so of freeboard and no rudder, and promptly
began recollecting ancient prayers to sea gods. News of his progress
went ahead of him via some sort of weird mackerel telegraph. And
no matter where he would beach the
YA.KABOO,
or at what hour,
reverent dark men and women waited upon
him,
fearful of some sor–
cery, yet eager as children to touch him or any of his things. They
fetched him food and drink, cured sea urchin festers, and stood and
watched his tiny butterfly winged sails fade and vanish into a cockatoo–
crest yellow dawn. At St. Thomas, capital of the Virgins, due to press
of time,
YAKABOO
was hoisted aboard stea.IJ?.er and went thus to
Boston.
Several years later
DIABLESSE,
a good husky down-east fisher–
man schooner retraced the course of the little
YAKABOO,
with
greater leisure, plenty of seaworthiness, and with wife and young son
as Mate and Bo'sun.
The first 4 swizzles garnered from Fenger are out of the files of a
Dane he met in St. Thomas named Mallingholm, and who has since
gone "where the angels (as Fenger says) live innocuously, so I've been
instructed-dang it!"
He further informs us, with scant foundation of veracity-that
these are mild and caponed affairs which "may be taken-in moderate
abandon-without irremediable fraying out at either end."
These 4 excellent swizzles have been given in accurate scale draw–
ings, so that the mixer may measure by eye by "placing a clean thumb
nail at each level before pouring."
By adding
I
tumbler of ice water and ice enough, and
1
13
to
Yi
tsp
of sugar, we get swizzles for 4 guests.
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