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began at two o'clock P.M. and by eight o'clock A.M. 



on the following day, had swallowed as follows : 



Ibs. oz. 



Bread-dust and train-oil ... 1 10 

 Walrus flesh, boiled .... 7 1 



Seal and bread 1 



Two candles 3 



Bread and butter 1 



Total solids 9 15 



Fluids : 



Rich walrus soup .... 2 quarts. 



Water, above 4 



Total fluids . 6 quarts.* 



* No medical professor has ever attempted to account for the 

 extraordinary powers of digestion these savages appear to pos- 

 sess, as in summer time, when food was plenty, ten pounds of 

 seal and walrus flesh, boiled and raw, per day, was reckoned no 

 extravagant allowance for a man in health. 



