He said his family consumed about three a day all the year round, counting holidays and Sundays.

He was a light eater himself, he said, on account of gitting dyspepsia from a tough Australian that he et in 1847, but the girls and the old woman, so he said, were very hearty eaters, and it kept him busy prowling around after human beings to satisfy 'em.

The old woman, he said, rather preferred to eat babies, on account of her teeth being poor, but the girls could eat the grizzliest sailor that ever went aboard ship." _S_.

"This is frightful." _Capt_.

"And the chief said sometimes the supply was scarce, but lately they had begun to depend more on imported goods than on the home products.