ii chapter 6 oh , '' temeraire said , in a very strange tone , and he pitched forward and vomited tremendously all over the open ground before him , heaving up an acrid stinking mess in which the traces of banana leaves , goat horns , cocoanut shells , and long green ropes of braided seaweed might be distinguished among the generalized yellowish mulch , scattered through with unrecognizable scraps of cracked bones and shreds of hide .