The Illustrated London News presented him replete with a tall, round Puritan hat, his flamboyance signalled by an ostrich feather.

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But, the mood had changed by 1862, with the Illustrated London News likening the tunnels to "a well-kept street at night".

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Instead of perfectly preserved beef, they found putrid meat so rotten that the stone floors needed to be coated with chloride of lime to mask the stench, according to an account in the Illustrated London News.

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