1911] REVISED RATIONS 15 
our tent in 1% to 2 feet all round, as well as all our sledge gear. 
Cherry is still in his down bag inside the reindeer with fur out- 
side. Bowers still as he started, with fur outside. I turned my 
bag yesterday from fur inside to fur outside. ‘The rise in tem- 
perature and the long lie-in during this blizzard have steamed 
us and our clothes into a very sodden wet condition, and one won- 
dered what a return to low temperatures would effect. 
We have been discussing our respective rations, and they have 
been somewhat revised as follows: 
On July 6 Cherry felt the need for more food, and would 
have chosen fat, either butter or pemmican, had he not been ex- 
perimenting on a large biscuit allowance. So he increased his 
biscuits to twelve a day, and found that it did away to some extent 
with his desire for more food and fat. But he occasionally had 
heartburn, and has certainly felt the cold more than Bowers and 
I have, and has had more frostbite in hands, feet, and face than 
we have. 
I have altogether failed to eat anything approaching my 
allowance of 8 ozs. of butter a day. The most I have managed 
has been about 2 or 3 ozs. 
Bowers has also found it impossible to eat his extra allow- 
ance of pemmican for lunch. 
So yesterday, that is, a fortnight out, we decided that Cherry 
and I should both alter our dietary, he to take 4 ozs. a day 
of my butter and I to take two of his biscuits, i.e. 4 ozs., in 
exchange. 
This brought Cherry’s diet and mine to the same. Bowers 
continued his diet, taking his extra pemmican when he felt it 
possible—but this became increasingly less frequent and all the 
way home he went without it. 
Cherry’s diet and mine was now, per diem: 
eMMMCAN she) hes) ee SE 2LOZS: 
ISCHIL a ete ELONOZS: 
utECOM Mya ee sy aye) ea, OS... werarely eat more 
than 2 ozs.) 
Bowers’ diet was now: 
emunicamy ee) A Ove wena ye E2078, 
Sct Ley ure seh) Meat, yO OZS. 
Extra pemimican. yj.) :4vozs./ (rarely eaten). 
