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most vegetables, and now he served us the finest fresh 

 meat soup with vegetables in it. The clou of the repast 

 was the dish of cutlets. If we had entertained the 

 slightest doubt of the quality of the meat, this vanished 

 instantly on the first trial. The meat was excellent, 

 quite excellent, and one cutlet after another disap- 

 peared with lightning-like rapidity. I must admit that 

 they would have lost nothing by being a little more 

 tender, but one must not expect too much of a dog. 

 At this first meal I finished five cutlets myself, and 

 looked in vain in the pot for more. Wisting appeared 

 not to have reckoned on such a brisk demand. 



We employed the afternoon in going through our 

 stock of provisions, and dividing the whole of it among 

 three sledges; the fourth — Hassel's — was to be left 

 behind. The provisions were thus divided. Sledge 

 No. 1 (Wisting's) contained: 



Biscuits, 3,700 (daily ration, 40 biscuits per man). 



Dogs' pemmican, 2771 pounds (i kilogram, or 

 1 pound 11 ounces per dog per day). 



Men's pemmican, 59i pounds (350 grams, or 

 1234 ounces per man per day). 



Chocolate, 12f pounds (40 grams, or 1*4 ounces per 

 man per day). 



Milk-powder, 13^ pounds (60 grams, or 2*1 ounces 

 per man per day) . 



The other two sledges had approximately the same 

 supplies, and thus permitted us on leaving this place to 



