and as for going as cook,—though i confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board—yet, somehow, i never fancied broiling fowls;—though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than i will. it is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.