1 They rarely eat meat once a week, and never oftener, and then only the hard dry charqui .
2 The miners who work in the mine itself have twenty-five shillings per month, and are allowed a little charqui .
3 A few maize cobs and a strip or two of charqui was all the travelling store in the scrips his pilgrims carried.
4 Sometimes it was merely cut in strips, roughly rubbed with brine, and hung in the sun to dry into charqui , or jerked beef.
5 Charqui ; hence, probably, says McCulloh, the term "jerked," applied to the dried beef of South America.
6 "And we shall neither have CHARQUI , nor hard eggs, nor fillets of ostrich?"
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