Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London

Certainly our situation might be worse. We are cooking on the coal-
stove and on the oil-burners. We have servants to cook and serve for
us. And, most important of all, we are in possession of all the food
on the Elsinore.

Mr. Pike makes no mistake. Realizing that with our crowd we cannot
rush the crowd at the other end of the ship, he accepts the siege,
which, as he says, consists of the besieged holding all food supplies
while the besiegers are on the imminent edge of famine.