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that a great number were required before it was any use to try and 

 prepare them for food. With a little patience, however, we at 

 length managed to collect enough to make it worth while to 

 attempt frying them, and one fine morning they appeared hot and 

 crisp on the breakfast-table. It was long since we had eaten 

 anything of the kind ; and, although they hardly come under the 



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head of first-class fish, it was the general consensus of opinion 

 that they tasted delicious. 



The steward at this time also ' took to science,' as he termed 

 it, and went ashore every evening collecting plants and insects. 

 One evening, when he had been his trip ashore and was returning 

 on board, he saw a codfish swimming towards the boat. Certain 

 sceptics thought it highly improbable that it was a cod, but 

 Lindstrom stuck to his opinion, despite these malicious souls who 

 told him that he must have seen his own reflection in the water ; 

 he only laughed, and I have never seen a cod do that. 



I had long been thinking in what direction we should set our 



