I was in good health again, and my appetite was simply ravenous.
While I was dining I had a large onion over the double lamp stewing for a luncheon later in the day.

High living to-day! In the afternoon the _Spray_ came upon a large turtle asleep on the sea.

He awoke with my harpoon through his neck, if he awoke at all.

I had much difficulty in landing him on deck, which I finally accomplished by hooking the throat-halyards to one of his flippers, for he was about as heavy as my boat.

I saw more turtles, and I rigged a burton ready with which to hoist them in; for I was obliged to lower the mainsail whenever the halyards were used for such purposes, and it was no small matter to hoist the large sail again.