It certainly is no hardship to eat it, though persons living under civilized conditions probably would shudder at it.

The hardship would come if we were unable to get it." I think that the palate of the human animal can adjust itself to anything.

Some creatures will die before accepting a strange diet if deprived of their natural food.

The Yaks of the Himalayan uplands must feed from the growing grass, scanty and dry though it may be, and would starve even if allowed the best oats and corn.
"We still have the dark water-sky of the last week with us to the south-west and west, round to the north-east.

We are leaving all the bergs to the west and there are few within our range of vision now.