He ate the whole fish, bones and all.

English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...

These were the mounted Hessian riflemen, the dreaded Jaegers.

On Sunday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would not go back on its nuclear programme.