The penguins I intended for our poultry-yard; and, for the present, I ordered the boys to tie each of them by a leg to one of our geese or ducks, who opposed the bondage very clamorously; but necessity made them submissive.
My wife showed me a large store of potatoes and manioc roots, which she and her children had dug up the evening before.

We then went to supper, and talked of all we had seen in the vessel, especially of the pinnace, which we had been obliged to leave.

My wife did not feel much regret on this account, as she dreaded maritime expeditions, though she agreed she might have felt less uneasiness if we had had a vessel of this description.

I gave my sons a charge to rise early next morning, as we had an important business on hand; and curiosity roused them all in very good time.

After our usual preparations for the day, I addressed them thus: "Gentlemen, I am going to teach you all a new business,--that of a baker.