. Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan. EXPLORATION OF PEEL ISLAND. 239 whom had left evidence of their visits in the stump of a tree, which showedmarks of having heen smoothly cut with a large axe. There was also aneglected bed of tomatoes, overgrown with weeds, seen stretched along thebanks of the stream, which had certainly been planted there by the hand ofman. On the gathering of all the company, who were almost worn out,and suffered much from the excessive heat, a fire was lighted, and the boarsliver and kidneys being duly cooked, a very excellen
. Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan. EXPLORATION OF PEEL ISLAND. 239 whom had left evidence of their visits in the stump of a tree, which showedmarks of having heen smoothly cut with a large axe. There was also aneglected bed of tomatoes, overgrown with weeds, seen stretched along thebanks of the stream, which had certainly been planted there by the hand ofman. On the gathering of all the company, who were almost worn out,and suffered much from the excessive heat, a fire was lighted, and the boarsliver and kidneys being duly cooked, a very excellent extemporaneous feast,with the addition of the pork and other rations brought with them, was pre-pared and voraciously discussed. The party being refreshed by their ban-quet and the rest they had enjoyed, and it being as late as two oclock, deter-mined to return. When the guides announced that it was necessary to goback the way they came, the resumption of the labors, and the exposure tothe dangers which had just been undergone, seemed quite appalling. Therewas, however, no al
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