The flesh, however, though roasted and dried, was scarcely eatable.

By this time our stock was completely exhausted-indeed ,forthe last day it had been scarcely eatable.

The few remaining, intended for food, were in so emaciated a state that the flesh was scarcely eatable.

When my pie nearly gone and what remain was scarcely eatable, I see a vessel standing to de westward.

We made up our stock to twenty-six but several of them were putrid and scarcely eatable, even by men suffering the extremity of famine.

The store of salt fish we had remaining was scarcely eatable, for the salt had been washed out of it, and it was becoming bad.

A few biscuits and a portion of the salt beef, which was at the best scarcely eatable, and possessed but slightly nutritive qualities, alone remained.