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Breakfast (per man) Four ounces pemmican, two bis- 

 euits, two ounces coffee, two-thirds ounce sugar. 



Dinner Eight ounces pernuiican, one ounce Liebig, one- 

 half ounce tea, two-thirds ounce sugar. 



Supper Four ounces pemmican, one-half ounce tea, two- 

 thirds ounce sugar, two biscuits, one ounce of lime-juice. 



This amounted to less than two pounds per man per diem. 

 The party was divided into five tents. 



No. 1 Captain DeLong, Mi-. Collins, and five others. 



No. 2 Lieutenant Chipp, D unbar, and five others. 



No. 3 Lieutenant Danenhower, Newcomb, and five others. 



No. 4 Engineer Melville and five others. 



No. 5 Dr. Ambler, Boatswain Cole, and five others. 



The captain had also an office-tent, in which half of his 

 men were berthed. The tents were nine feet long by six 

 in width, and required very close stowage for seven men. 

 Each tent had a fire-pot, a heavy galvanized-inm kettle, in 

 which a copper kettle was arranged, having an alcohol-lamp 

 beneath it with a circular asbestos wick ten inches in diame- 

 ter. It also had a stewpan on top. A cook was derailed to 

 each tent, with an assistant to provide snow and to draw provi- 

 sions. Each tent had a Mackintosh blanket nine by six, upon 

 which the men could lie at night. The sleeping-bags were 

 made of deer-skin, covered with hairless seal-skin or cotton 

 drilling. In our tent there were three such single bags and 

 two double ones ; but generally single bags were in the other 

 tents. Ours had been designed by Mr. Dunbar in November, 

 1879, and were the only ones that did not require alteration 

 after we got on the ice. Each boat was provided with an 

 outfit of oars, a boat-box with suitable articles for repairing 

 damages, and ammunition for the arms that had been detailed 

 to each boat. 



The order said that the course would be south 17 degrees 

 east (magnetic), which was south (true). I may here state 

 that the boat compasses were intentionally left behind, because 

 the captain said he preferred the pocket prismatic compasses. 

 We had six splendid Richie boat compasses, always kept in 



