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Show Barnacles as a Food, Tho best-known and most useful of starvation diets for wrecked or castaway cast-away people Is that of barnacles, and If an thing of tho kind happens to you, thoy will probably bo your staple food. Barnacles ore long, tough, half shellfish, half vegetable, creatures that grow on tho under sides of vessels. ves-sels. Three Englishmen and n crow of Iascars, who had been forced to abandon tho sailing vessel North Star, kept themselves going for over n week on barnacles, and only two of tho crow died. Tho worst of them Is that thoy give ono Internal cramps and causo an lnsufferablo thirst; but they do nourish tho frame. |