Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared from cocoa, and of an aphrodisiac nature, as we were told, was presented to him in golden cups. . . I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled with foaming chocolate of which he took some.
I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.