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to seal-beef. For the dogs we had brought all our 

 remaining store of the excellent dogs' pemmican, and 

 that was not a little. Besides this, we had a good lot of 

 dried fish. They had fish and pemmican on alternate 

 days. On this diet the animals kept in such splendid 

 condition that, when on arrival at Hobart they had shed 

 most of their rough winter coats, they looked as if they 

 had been in clover for a year. 



For the nine of us who had just joined the ship, our 

 comrades on board had brought all the way from Buenos 

 Aires several fat pigs, that were now li\'ing in luxury in 

 their pen on the after-deck; in addition to these, three 

 fine sheep's carcasses hung in the workroom. It need 

 scarcely be said that we were fully capable of appreciat- 

 ing these unexpected luxuries. Seal-beef, no doubt, had 

 done excellent service, but this did not prevent roast 

 mutton and pork being a welcome change, especially as 

 they came as a complete surprise. I hardly think one 

 of us had counted on the possibility of getting fresh 

 meat before we were back again in civilization. 



On her arrival at the Bay of Whales there were eleven 

 men on board the Fram, all included. Instead of 

 Kutschin and Nodtvedt,who had gone home from Buenos 

 Aires while the ship was there in the autumn of 1911, 

 three new men were engaged — namely, Halvorsen, 

 Olsen and Steller; the two first -named were from 

 Bergen ; Steller was a German, who had lived for several 

 years in Norway, and talked Norwegian like a native. 



