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except by the twelve-hour-glass. The beer, freezing in the 

 casks, became as tasteless as water. Half a pound of bread a 

 day was served out to each man : the provisions of dried fish and 

 salt meat remained still abundant. The chimney would not 



draw, and the apartment was filled with a blinding smoke, — 

 w T hich the crew were obliged to endure, however, or die of cold. 

 The surgeon made a bathing-tub from a wine-pipe, in which 



