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Rh about five. For some months this latter meal, as far as the beverage went, consisted only of boiled water; but they afterwards manufactured what they named Mocoa, as a substitute for tea, and this consisted of raw eggs beaten up in hot water. They supped about seven or eight, and generally retired to rest about ten. They had saved an oil-can in the boat; this served them to make their Mocoa in, and it favoured their other cooking apparatus.

A large part of the food of the party, who numbered seven in all, could only be procured from a distance, and the weather in those latitudes being extremely wet and tempestuous, they were not always able to go in quest of it. Their supply of salt was very small, and only procured by filling a frying-pan with sea-water and then evaporating it over a slow fire. They had for a long time no grain or vegetables, and subsisted entirely on the flesh of animals. Their table utensils were very scanty; but they contrived after a while to manufacture some wooden spoons. Of a keg which was washed ashore, they formed a pair of soup-tureens, and after this they made some wooden trenchers. Seal skins, after a few months, were in great request for articles of clothing, as the clothes they had on when wrecked were soon worn out. Goodridge had been fortunate enough to save a great-coat from the wreck, and when his other clothes were entirely worn out, he set to work to manufacture this single garment into a suit. They had sharpened a nail so as to make an awl, and the sinews of the sea-elephant served him for sewing thread. The lining of this coat he made, with some contrivance, into a shirt; he then cut off the skirts,