It remained now to rig some kind of a furnace, by which heat could
be applied to my rude apparatus. It had become quite dark, but I had
no disposition to give over work until the experiment had been tried, and
my sanguine hopes either dissipated or realized. The cook's galley, with
the other fixtures of the deck had been swept away, and not a fragment
of stove, stew-pans, or any articles of kitchen furniture remained, but, in
the cabin pantry I found a large earthen baking dish, from which the un-
fortunate " Doctor " had not unfrequently regaled us with divers pleasing
compounds of pastry, with rice, apples, eggs, chickens, and pork. He
little dreamed to what last uses his pudding dish would come to be
applied ! An empty flour barrel, firmly fastened down to the deck
with a number of spikes driven into the upper head, served as a stand
for the dish, across which a few pieces of wire were arranged as a grate.
Upon this I placed the coffee-pot filled up to the spout with sea water,
and joined to it the pipe, which led down to a tin can placed upon the
deck. A fire of splinters of dry staves was soon kindled, and I had noth-



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ing left to do but to feed it occasionally and anxiously await the result.
