Wild Berries 
sea. At length we reached a small bay, where we 
beached the boats and unloaded them, and took 
the contents into the hut. The two boats were 
now hauled high and dry, and turned over bottom 
up amongst the bush to protect them until we 
required them for our return journey. The rest 
of the day was spent in getting ready the 
loads. 
Just outside the hut were enormous quantities 
of dwarf cranberries, and it was not long before 
two of the boys had collected enough to make 
a splendid feed for all hands. When stewed, 
with a small amount of unsweetened canned 
milk added to them, these berries make a dish 
fit for the gods, which was especially welcome 
at this time, owing to the fact that we had been 
living for the last week on bacon and beans, a 
very excellent dish in its way, but one that I 
was apt to get tired of. These berries flourish 
everywhere, and I feel sure they would do ex- 
cellently well in our woods at home, growing as 
they do under the bushes and trees. The plant 
is very dwarf, being not more than three inches 
high, and must not be confounded with the tall 
cranberry, a bush that grows quite two feet in 
height, the berries of which are much lighter in 
colour and far more acid to the taste. Whilst 
on the subject of berries, I may mention the 
blue, or bilberry, that is common in the moor- 
land districts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 
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