The answer to this question can be found in Chapter 20 of The Swiss Family Robinson, at least by the way the chapters are numbered in our summary. Different versions are divided into chapters in different ways. The answer is, for example, found in Chapter 9 of the Gutenberg version in the link below. The Robinson family is always able to have fresh sea turtle because they capture the turtles but keep them alive...
The answer to this question can be found in Chapter 20 of The Swiss Family Robinson, at least by the way the chapters are numbered in our summary. Different versions are divided into chapters in different ways. The answer is, for example, found in Chapter 9 of the Gutenberg version in the link below. The Robinson family is always able to have fresh sea turtle because they capture the turtles but keep them alive rather than killing them immediately.
This happens at one point while the family is at Tentholm, on the beach. They discover that turtles often come on shore to lay eggs there. When more than one turtle would come up, they would sometimes catch the turtles and tie them up. They would drill a hole in the turtle’s shell and would use the hole to tie the turtles up with rope. As the book says, the family would
fasten them to a stake, driven in close by the water's edge, by a cord passed through a hole in their shell.
The cords must have been long enough to allow the turtles to swim around and find food because the turtles “throve well” in this set-up and were still in great condition after weeks of captivity. By tying the turtles up like this rather than killing them immediately, the family was able to have fresh turtle more often.
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