We had most of us fasted eight-and-forty hours, some more; it was time therefore to make enquiry among ourselves what store of sustenance had been brought from the wreck by dire providence of some, and what could be procured on the island by the industry of others; but the produce of the one amounted to no more than two or three pounds of biscuit-dust preserved in a bag; and all the success of those who ventured abroad, the weather being still exceedingly bad, was to kill one sea-gull and pick some wild sellery.

[T]he lantern flame … waved and smoked in the currents of air that leaked into the dome from the fierce wind-stream without.

Maize and wintersome both yield large quantities of material which may be easily stored in the form of silage.

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