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Erederick should remain ahove and lay in a stock of
lard for the Avinter, Gustav returning to the Imt and
storing it. M'hen a pig Avas killed, the hide, Avith the
fat in it, Avas rolled np, secured Avitli thongs of skin,
and throAvii over the cliff, and Gustav then ran the
lard into a cask.
Euring their second AA inter the privations of the
brothers do not seem to have heen great. They Avere
fÍ5f ettiii"O accustomed to their mode of life, and they
had alAvays sufficient food, such as it Avas. They u'cre
remarkahly Avell educated : hoth could speak and read
English fluently, and the elder had a good knoAv-
ledge of Erench. Their library consisted of eight
volumes: Schoedler’s Natural History, a German
Atlas, Charles O’Malley, Captain Morrell’s Voyages,
tAA'O old volumes of a monthly magazine, Hamlet
and Coriolanus Avith Erench notes, and Schiller’s
Poems. These they unfortunately came to knoAA'
almost by heart, hut they had considerable resources
in themselves, in the intelligent interest Avhich they
took ill the ever-changing appearances of nature.
AVhen the ‘Challenger’ arrived they AA'ere preparing
for another summer, hut the peculiar food and the
AA'ant of variety in it AA'as beginning to tell upon
them, for all their original stores Avere exhausted,
AA'ith the exception of the Epsom salts Avhich Avas
untouched, neither of them having had an hour’s
illness during their sojourn; and they AA'ere heartily
glad of the chance of a passage to the Cape.
Erederick came to the ship to see us hefore Ave left
for the south in December. He Avas then comfortably
settled in a situation in a merchant’s office in Cape
ToAvn, and Gustav Avas on his Avay home to see his