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He then left for Cape Town, which he
described as 17 days at sea, 13 days of foul
weather. Cape Town was characterised by hard
work, no money and much scrounging. With
his good friend Henry, old mooring lines were
reworked into ship’s rigging.
Dinner was often cormorant or penguin,
and breakfast was a tasty dog biscuit. He wrote
to the dog biscuit manufacturer asking for
a discount bulk price – an offer it declined,
stating: “These biscuits are not fit for human
consumption.”
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