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. ❋ Kirk Munroe (1890)
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. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
When these duties were performed, a bustle was seen about the camboose, or large cooking stove, in which the meals were prepared. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
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. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
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. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
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. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
There was no cabin, poop, camboose, or other house on deck, and the eye had a clean range over the whole length of her. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)
Crouching under the lee of the camboose, the young skipper found ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)
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. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
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. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
In doing this, the sea made a fair breach over her, sweeping the deck of even the launch and camboose, and carrying all the lee-bulwarks, in the waist, with them. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
Diogenes, it seems, had that moment gone to his camboose, to look after the plain dinner he was trying to boil, when probably seizing the iron as the most solid object near him, he was carried overboard with it, and never reappeared. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
My office was to be that of cook -- by no means a very difficult task in that craft, the camboose consisting of two pots set in bricks, and the dishes being very simple. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
To Neb's great delight, he was sent forward to take his share on the yards and in the rigging, there being no vacancy for him to fill about the camboose, or in the cabin. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
There was no chimney required, fire being unnecessary for warmth in that climate; but the French had brought their camboose from the wreck, and this we placed under a proper covering at a short distance from the hut, the strength of one man being insufficient to move it. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
Harry was a greater favourite in and about the camboose than the captain. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
Jack Tier and Josh were both passing to and fro, as is the wont of stewards, between the camboose and the cabin, the breakfast table being just then in the course of preparation. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
Ducks aboard here, and there is but one camboose, and one set of coppers. " ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
