The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 69
The Strike Among the Cooks
The Strike Among the Cooks.
I omitted to mention that after our return from the mainland from chastising the Arabs, there was a strike among our cooks (Somalies). This did not arise through a want of increased wages. It came about thus: The three days' cooked provisions, or the meat portion (pork), was, page 37 rather than throw it away, handed over to us to dispose of in the usual manner. Those chaps, of course, had a holy horror of pork, and they left, and would not come within cooey of us for three weeks, until all sign of the pork had been cleared from all the utensils used. Some Portuguese cooks were engaged in their stead. These fellows were not so particular, and we soon found out it was not to our advantage to keep them. They were too fond of that which we should have.