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Book, page 10 / 30 FLOWER'S Cargo, included, as appears from authentic sources:-- Breadstuff's, including,-- Biscuits or ship-bread (in barrels). Oatmeal (in barrels or hogsheads). Rye meal (in hogsheads). Butter (in firkins). Cheese, "Hollands" and English (in boxes). Eggs, pickled (in tubs). Fish, "haberdyne" [or salt dried cod] (in boxes). Smoked herring (in boxes). Meats, including,-- Beef, salt, or "corned" (in barrels). Dry-salted (in barrels). Smoked (in sacks). Dried neats'-tongues (in boxes). Pork, bacon, smoked (in sacks or boxes). Salt [" corned "] (in barrels). Hams and shoulders, smoked (in canvas sacks or hogsheads). Salt (in bags and barrels). Vegetables, including,-- Beans (in bags and barrels). Cabbages (in sacks and barrels). Onions (in sacks). Turnips (in sacks). Parsnips (in sacks). Pease (in barrels), and Vinegar (in hogsheads), while,-- Beer (in casks), brandy, "aqua vitae" (in pipes), and gin ["Hollands," "strong waters," or "schnapps"] (in pipes) were no small or unimportant part, from any point of view, of the provision supply. Winslow, in his letter to George Morton advising him as to his preparations for the voyage over, says: "Be careful to have a very good bread-room to keep your biscuit in." This was to keep them from dampness. Winthrop gives us the memorandum of his order for the ship- bread for his voyage in 1630. He says: "Agreed with Keene of Southwark, baker, for 20,000 of Biscuit, 15,000 of brown, and 5,000 of white." Captain Beecher minutes: "10 M. of bread for the ship ARBELLA." Beecher's memorandum of "oatmeal" is "30 bushels." Winslow mentions
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