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Updated: May 10, 2025
As it was now quite light, the party, none of whom had eaten or slept since the previous morning, began to bestir themselves to prepare food. The mutineers of the Arrow had landed a small supply of dried meats, canned soups and vegetables, crackers, flour, tea, and coffee for the five they had marooned, and these were hurriedly drawn upon to satisfy the craving of long-famished appetites.
If a prisoner looked wistful after receiving one handful of crackers, another was handed to him; if his long-famished eyes still lingered as if enchained by the rare display of food, the men who were issuing said: "Here, old fellow, there's plenty of it: take just as much as you can carry in your arms." So it was also with the pickled pork, the coffee, the sugar, etc.
Beelzebub, it must be confessed, fell a victim to his own intemperance a severe fit of indigestion, consequent upon the enormous supper he had eaten, was the cause of his death his long-famished stomach was not accustomed to, nor proof against, such excesses.
If a prisoner looked wistful after receiving one handful of crackers, another was handed to him; if his long-famished eyes still lingered as if enchained by the rare display of food, the men who were issuing said: "Here, old fellow, there's plenty of it: take just as much as you can carry in your arms." So it was also with the pickled pork, the coffee, the sugar, etc.
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