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  • Another witness, a Frenchman who spent perhaps too many weeks on Rodrigues in the course of an expedition, remembered “soupe de tortue, tortue en fricassée, tortues en daube, tortues en godiveau, oeufs de tortue, foie de tortue,” and grumbled that everything he ate seemed to be only more tortoise stew.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Another witness, a Frenchman who spent perhaps too many weeks on Rodrigues in the course of an expedition, remembered “soupe de tortue, tortue en fricassée, tortues en daube, tortues en godiveau, oeufs de tortue, foie de tortue,” and grumbled that everything he ate seemed to be only more tortoise stew.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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