If they had baked beans, or hash, or anything of that kind from the ship's store, it was cooked for them by Percy; and he also furnished them with his famous bread, which for lightness and crispness is unsurpassed in the round world.
The Eskimos seemed always to be eating.

There was no table for the crowd of them, as they do not incline to regular meal hours; but each family ate by itself, as appetite dictated.

I gave them pots, pans, plates, cups, saucers, knives, forks, and oil stoves.

They had access to the ship's galley, day and night; but Percy was always amiable, and the Eskimos at length learned not to wash their hands in the water in which he purposed to boil meat.
The third day out the weather was villainous.

It rained steadily, and there was a strong southerly wind.