Their main food was dried peas or beans, sea biscuit and salt pork.
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Rich MooiThe cookielike sea biscuit, Clypeaster humilis, is very common in some sandy localities.
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These biscuits were created as a ship's biscuit, for long sea voyages by Venetian ships.
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Bird manages to get the texture of a dry biscuit into a sea of smooth glazes, demonstrating a mastery of materials that belies his fondness for crude gags.
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Holidays work better, it turns out, if you have someone to throw the children uproariously into the sea, and someone to towel them off and give them a biscuit.