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It would have been difficult to find better quarters than those provided by this cave. The various recesses hollowed out inside it made capital separate rooms.
It was a trifling disadvantage, that these recesses, which were of varying depth, were rather dark during the day, and that the cave itself was never very light. For, except in bad weather, it would only be occupied at night. At earliest dawn Captain Gould would be carried outside, to drink in the salt, invigorating air and bask in the sunshine.