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dishes on our menu than this last. * Electric Soup/ as 
its name suggests, is quite a new sea-dish. It is like the 
Argonaut soup mentioned by one of the 'Three in 
Norway/ and is not considered nutritive. The richest 
sea-dishes have the simplest names and the simplest 
dishes the most sensational. ( Dandy Funk/ and f Strike 
me Blind/ suggest rich, spicy dishes, whereas the first 
is simply sl]ip-biscuit broken into powder and mixed up 
with molasses. * Strike me Blind ' has its sensational 
name from its absolute innocuousness ; it consists of 
boiled rice and molasses. We have it on Fridays, and 
the crew say it is not a good thing to work on. ' Dead 
Dog' is rather a horrid name given to pounded biscuit, 
mixed with salt beef and margarine (butter preferred), 
and roasted in the oven. The pleasant quality of this 
dish is its elasticity: after loosening one's teeth with 
months of hard biscuit the elastic feeling is a welcome 
sensation. * Harriet Lane 1 is one of the simple dishes, — 
a sort of brawn. 
The men like it, 
but don't often 
get it. 
... A day 
of heat and rest 
and disappoint- 
ment. We saw 
a turtle asleep, 
and we thought 
we would catch 
it. If we had not been steaming we should probably 
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