This is what tomato canneries use to control their viscosity and keep their product very consistent and reliable from can to can and from year to year.
The fleet and the canneries knew nothing of her, and when I enquired of her tribes-people they would reply without explanation, 'She not here this year'.
There's never anybody to be had but those stupid, half-grown little French boys; and as soon as you do get one broke into your ways and taught something he's up and off to the lobster canneries or the States.