eleven o'clock
One room was the official apartment , furnished chastely with a flat-top desk , a hammock , and three uncomfortable cane-seated chairs . Engravings of the first and latest president of the country represented hung against the wall . The other room was the consul 's living apartment . It was eleven o'clock when he returned from the beach , and therefore breakfast time . Chanca , the Carib woman who cooked for him , was just serving the meal on the side of the gallery facing the sea -- a spot famous as the coolest in Coralio . The breakfast consisted of shark 's fin soup , stew of land crabs , breadfruit , a boiled iguana steak , aguacates , a freshly cut pineapple , claret and coffee . Geddie took his seat , and unrolled with luxurious laziness his bundle of newspapers .