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in Brazil, the tapir, capybara, paca, agouti, two or three varieties of 

 deer, and two varieties of wild pig can occasionally be shot; and most of 

 the monkeys are used for food. Turtles and turtle eggs can be had 

 in season and a great variety of birds, some of them delicious in flavor 



Above weights of food are net in avoirdupois ounces. Each complete ration 

 with its tin container weighed nearly twenty-seven pounds. The five pounds 

 over net weight of daily ration was taken up in tin necessary for protection of 

 food. The weight of component parts of daily ration had to be governed to 

 some extent by the size of the commercial package in which the food could be 

 purchased on short notice. Austin, Nichols & Co. of New York, who supplied 

 the food stores for my polar expedition, worked day and night to complete the 

 packing of the rations on time. 



