. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. nt, the commander continued, or, rather,I have repeated an experiment that was made by a recent English expe-dition, and found to work successfully. What is that ? I have mixed lime-juice with the pemmican in such a proportionthat it will not be necessary to keep the anti-scorbutic medicine always athand. At least, I think the result will be that our men will keep in goodhealth without the necessity of frequent rations of lime-juice. So much for the food provisions, he added, and with care they willbe all we need, in addition, of course, to the
. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. nt, the commander continued, or, rather,I have repeated an experiment that was made by a recent English expe-dition, and found to work successfully. What is that ? I have mixed lime-juice with the pemmican in such a proportionthat it will not be necessary to keep the anti-scorbutic medicine always athand. At least, I think the result will be that our men will keep in goodhealth without the necessity of frequent rations of lime-juice. So much for the food provisions, he added, and with care they willbe all we need, in addition, of course, to the game we hope to kill fromtime to time. For killing our game we are well provided with arms and ammu-nition. We have several rifles of the latest pattern, and we have revolverssufficient to set up a small shop, in case we want to make a trading vent-ure. We have a few rifles that can be loaded with loose powder andball, but the most of our weapons use fixed ammunition ; the shells can be 42 THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN. v _ •■,. s \ . •■..
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