ms (six roasted, the rest raw).
6 Taro-roots.
50 Fine large plums.
6 Cocoa-nuts, ripe.
6 Ditto, green (for drinking).
4 Large ducks and two small ones, raw.
3 Cold roast pigs, with stuffing.

I may here remark that the stuffing had been devised by Peterkin
specially for the occasion. He kept the manner of its compounding a
profound secret, so I cannot tell what it was; but I can say, with much
confidence, that we found it to be atrociously bad, and after the first
tasting, scraped it carefully out and threw it overboard. We calculated
that this supply would last us for several days; but we afterwards found
that it was much more than we required, especially in regard to the
cocoa-nuts, of which we found large supplies wherever we went. However,
as Peterkin remarked, it was better to have too much than too little, as
we knew not to what straits we might be put during our voyage.

It was a very calm, sunny morning when we launched forth and rowed over
the lagoon towards the outlet in the reef, and passed between the two
green islets that guarded the entrance. We experienced some difficulty
and no little danger in passing the surf of the breaker, and shipped a
good deal of water in the attempt; but once past the billow, we found
ourselves floating placidly on the long, oily swell that rose and fell
slowly as it rolled over the wide ocean.

Penguin Island lay on the other side of our own island, at about a mile
beyond the outer reef, and we calculated that it must be at least twenty
miles distant by the way we should have to go. We might, indeed, have
shortened the way by coasting round our island inside of the lagoon, and
going out at the passage in the reef nearly opposite to Penguin Island;
but we preferred to go by the open sea--first, because it was more
adventurous, and secondly, because we should have the pleasure of again
feeling the motion of the deep, which we all loved very much, not being
liable to sea-sickness.

"I wish we had a breeze," said Jack.

"So do I," cried Peterkin, resting on his oar and wiping his heated
brow; "pulling is hard work. Oh dear, if we could only catch a hundred
or two of these gulls, tie them to the boat with long strings, and make
them fly as we want them, how capital it would be!"

"Or bore a hole through a shark's tail and reeve a rope through it, eh?"
remarked Jack. "But, I say, it seems that my wish is going to be
granted, for here comes a breeze. Ship y