human
Warmth must be kept among us, said the old boat-steerer,
gpt
You surely understand the reason why it grows warmer as we approach the equator, and colder as we go from it, whether we go north or south?
human
All sailors know sich things, Captain Gar'ner; though they know it with very different degrees of exper'ence. But few get as far south as I have been, to pass a winter. A good pot of hot coffee of a morning will go as far as a second pee-jacket, if a man has to go out into the open air when the weather is at the hardest.
gpt
Luckily, our small stores are quite abundant, and we are better off for coffee and sugar than for anything else. I laid in of both liberally when we were at Rio.
human
Yes, Rio is a good place for the articles. But coffee must be _hot_ to do a fellow much good in one of these high-latitude winters; and to be hot there must be fuel to heat it.
gpt
I am afraid the wood will not hold out much more than half the time we shall be here. Fortunately, we had a large supply; but the other schooner was by no means as well furnished with fuel as she ought to have been for such a voyage.
human
Well, sir, I suppose you know what must be done next in such a case. Without _warm_ food, men can no more live through one of these winters, than they can live without food at all. If the Vineyard craft has no proper fuel aboard her, we must make fuel of her.
gpt
That might do, he said;
human
Let him go two or three mornings without his warm meal and hot coffee, answered Stimson, shaking his head,
gpt
I have thought of the same thing, Stephen; though I fear in vain, I suppose no useful heat can be given out there, until one gets too near the bad air to breathe it. What you say about breaking up the other schooner, however, is worthy of consideration; and I will speak to Captain Daggett about it.