A Few Days on Land
- Ned gets down to business immediately; he starts knocking coconuts off trees, breaking them open, and drinking their milk.
- Soon, the three are out scavenging for veggies. They're a bit wary of cannibals, but, at this point, their stomachs are doing most of the thinking.
- Soon Ned starts cooking up some breadfruit—a big starchy tropical fruit that tastes sort of like bread when it's cooked—and everybody's chowing down.
- By noon, they've got tons of bananas and other goodies. Now Ned really wants the real deal: land-animal meat. Evening comes too soon, though, and they all head back to the boat and load it up.
- When the make it back to the sub, they find dinner already prepared.
- The next day, at dawn, the trio returns to the island.
- Ned immediately goes out hunting. First, he gets to work hunting parrots, but after bagging a few, he decides he still wants some four-legged animals.
- He gets what he's after: a wild boar and some kangaroos. But then the group finds something they don't want. While they're supping, a stone falls at their feet. A bunch of two-legged mammals—a.k.a. cannibals—have come, and they're hungry for meat too.