Chapter 5: DiscoveriesThe next morning, I awoke feeling quite rested. Indeed, I felt good all through, and I had to go through things that had happened the previous day to figure out why that was so. I think I concluded that it was from a sense of accomplishment and of camaraderie between myself and the Marine.
That, and the food—though coconut flesh and water, I knew, would become tiresome very quickly. So it was that I got up with a firm resolution that today I would discover at least one fresh source—and type—of food for our survival diet.
The Marine, was sitting on one of the trunks. He had lit a fire and was roasting something over it, on a stick whose other end was stuck in the sand.
“Breakfast!” he cried as I came up to see what the something was.
I looked at the object, and at
