camboose

• “Along the mess-table of the galley -- or the "camboose," as the yacht's cook insisted upon calling it -- were ranged three gentlemen of color, each of whom treated his companions with the greatest deference, though at the same time believing himself to be just a little better posted in culinary matters than either of the others.”

  Raftmates A Story of the Great River

• “The cook was of the genuine African type; and when not employed in serious work about the camboose, was throwing off the exuberance of his good humor in peals of laughter.”

  Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

• “When these duties were performed, a bustle was seen about the camboose, or large cooking stove, in which the meals were prepared.”

  Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

• “Orders were promptly obeyed; every man moved as if he had been suddenly endued with a double portion of strength and activity; smiles lighted up every countenance; the joke and the laugh went round, and even Cato, the philosophic African, as he stood near his camboose and gazed earnestly on the barren sands, clapped his hands with glee, exhibited a store of ivory which would have excited the admiration of an elephant.”

  Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

• “I succeeded but little better; and the captain, who was something of an epicure in his way, whenever a good cup of coffee was required for breakfast, or a palatable dish for dinner, released me from my vocation for the time, and installed himself in the camboose.”

  Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

• “Indeed, as I was passing along from the camboose to the cabin, with a plate of toast in one hand and a teapot in the other, the brig took a lee lurch without giving notice of her intention, and sent me with tremendous force across the deck, to leeward, where I brought up against the sail.”

  Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

• “There was no cabin, poop, camboose, or other house on deck, and the eye had a clean range over the whole length of her.”

  Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat

• “Crouching under the lee of the camboose, the young skipper found”

  Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World

• “The launch, camboose, water-casks, and spare spars, in driving overboard, having forced out timber-heads, and other supports, in a way to split the plank sheer, which let in the water fast, every time the lee gunwale went under.”

  Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"

• “The camboose-house went also, at the last of these terrific seas; and nothing saved the camboose itself, but its great weight, added to the strength of its fastenings.”

  Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"

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