after zanzibar , when he had become so weary of stale salt pork and biscuit he thought he could not bear to see it again , he had locked the door of the great cabin and composed a full english banquet in his mindroast capon , next a pigeon pie larded in bacon fat , then a dripping red side of roast mutton , followed by oysters on the shell spiced with grilled eel , and finally a thick goose pudding on honeyed ham .