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Calculation of Allowances — Packing — Cooking-apparatus — 

 Cooking-lamp — Permanent Weights of a Sledge Party — Spare 

 Clothing — Medical Bag — Details concerning Clothing and 

 General Equipment ......... 298 



CHAPTER XI 



TYPICAL SLEDGING EXPERIENCES 



Use of Dogs for Sledging — A Discussion of their Merits —History 

 of our Dog Team — Discomforts of Sledge Travelling — Typical 

 Experiences — The Ordinary Routine — Result of a Blizzard — 

 Benefit of Summer Temperatures — Disadvantages of Summer — 

 The Fascination of Sledging ....... 340 



CHAPTER XII 



THE SPRING JOURNEYS OF 1902 



Spring Sledging Plans — Start of Sledging Season — Parties leave the 

 Ship — Submarine Ice — Start on Southern Reconnaissance — An 

 Inopportune Blizzard — Return to the Ship — Fresh Start — Journey 

 to the Bluff — Difficult Travelling — Placing the Depot— Rapid 

 Return — Report of Outbreak of Scurvy — Experiences of Western 

 Party — Steps taken to Combat the Disease — Some Remarks on 

 the Nature of Scurvy — Causes which may have Led to our Out- 

 break — Impossibility of Determining its Exact Origin — Prospects 

 of Future South Polar Expeditions in this Respect . . . 374 



