It was therefore with no little chagrin that we beheld our guests making up the worst possible faces, and spitting it out anywhere, everywhere,--on deck, against the bulwarks, overboard, just as it happened.

The most of them immediately threw away the candy; though _We-we_ and _Caubvick_, out of consideration for our feelings perhaps, quietly tucked theirs into their boot-legs.

There was an awkward pause in the hospitalities.
Clearly, candy wouldn't pass for a delicacy with them.
"Try 'em with cold boiled beef!" exclaimed the captain.
Luckily, as it occurred, Palmleaf had lately boiled up quite a quantity.

It was cut up in small pieces, and distributed among them; and, at the captain's suggestion, raw fat pork was given the men.

This latter, however, was much too salt for them: so that, on the whole, our refreshments were a failure.