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They had brought away water in greater abundance, and caught some since in their shirts, and on the spread sail, --nearlyafter the same fashion and in the same rain-storm that had afforded thewell-timed supply to Ben Brace and his _protege_.
But the stock derived from both sources was on the eve of beingexhausted. Only a small ration or two to each man remained in the cask;but thirsty as most of them might be, they were suffering still morefrom the kindred appetite of hunger.
What did Le Gros m...ean when he said they must eat? What food was thereon the raft, to enable them to avoid the terrible alternative appendedto his proposal, --"eat, or die"! What _had_ kept them from dying: sinceit was now many days, almost weeks, since they had swallowed the lastmorsel of biscuit so sparingly distributed amongst them?
The answer to all these interrogatories is one and the some. It is toofearful to be pronounced, --awful even to think of!
The clean-stripped skeleton lying upon the raft, and which was clearlythat of a human being; the bones scattered about, --some of them, asalready observed, held in hand, and in such fashion as to show thehorrid use that was being made of them, --left no doubt as to the natureof the food upon which the hungering wretches had been subsisting.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They had brought away water in greater abundance, and caught some since in their shirts, and on the spread sail, --nearlyafter the same fashion and in the same rain-storm that had afforded thewell-timed supply to Ben Brace and his _protege_.
But the stock derived from both sources was on the eve of beingexhausted. Only a small ration or two to each man remained in the cask;but thirsty as most of them might be, they were suffering still morefrom the kindred appetite of hunger.
What did Le Gros m...ean when he said they must eat? What food was thereon the raft, to enable them to avoid the terrible alternative appendedto his proposal, --"eat, or die"! What _had_ kept them from dying: sinceit was now many days, almost weeks, since they had swallowed the lastmorsel of biscuit so sparingly distributed amongst them?
The answer to all these interrogatories is one and the some. It is toofearful to be pronounced, --awful even to think of!
The clean-stripped skeleton lying upon the raft, and which was clearlythat of a human being; the bones scattered about, --some of them, asalready observed, held in hand, and in such fashion as to show thehorrid use that was being made of them, --left no doubt as to the natureof the food upon which the hungering wretches had been subsisting.
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