Their mutton yields to ours, but their beef is excellent.

I have had a sirloin so large, that I have been forced to make three bites of it; but this is rare.

My servants were astonished to see me eat it, bones and all, as in our country we do the leg of a lark.

Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours.

Of their smaller fowl I could take up twenty or thirty at the end of my knife.
One day his imperial majesty, being informed of my way of living, desired "that himself and his royal consort, with the young princes of the blood of both sexes, might have the happiness," as he was pleased to call it, "of dining with me." They came accordingly, and I placed them in chairs of state, upon my table, just over against me, with their guards about them.