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though had Piottuch and the men not been successful 

 our situation would not have been anything so pleasing 

 as it now is. 



We have food now for every one with care for thirty 

 meals, the gizzards and livers of three geese a meal for 

 three persons, and the breasts, legs and backs of fifteen 

 geese at one goose a meal for six persons : 



15 geese gizzards and livers ... 15 meals 

 15 geese bodies, etc. ... ... 15 ,, 



Thirty meals for seven persons at two meals per day 

 will last for tw r o days with care. 



As a slight token of our opinion of Bolshai Feodor and 

 Gavriel I simply pointed to the Geese and said to Feodor, 

 ' Neat rowbottom, neat scliaffum, Feodor,'' and allowed 

 him to go to bed with only a supper of raw leeks and 

 water. Next meal, he will, humbly and repentantly, it is 

 to be hoped, and thankfully, share with the rest, and in 

 future also be a little more anxious to take part of their 

 burden of work off their shoulders. Some may consider 

 it a hard measure to send him supperless to bed, but then 

 he has himself, eaten enough for three men, and been the 

 lazy, improvident, whining one of the lot. It is hoped 

 also that Gavriel will profit by the example we have made 

 of his chum. 



Help yourselves and your fellow-men, and God will send 

 you bread ; but don't cry, ' Hospodee, Hospodee, give 

 us bread,' and sit idly by, or sleep while others work. 



The gale still continued and a thick mist now accom- 

 panied it. Surely it was to be hoped it would reach its 

 climax soon, and the steamer be able to come for us. 



Piottuch told us that both old and young geese when 

 in the water submerged their bodies and kept only the 

 heads above water, and that they both dived, remaining 

 a long time under water. It was also difficult to dis- 

 tinguish, therefore, between old and young. He has 



