104 SCOT LS. LAS) EXPEDITION [SEPTEMBER 
clear with a light westerly wind. Priestley and I went over to 
the depot moraine to look at the geological specimens and put 
them round the bamboo mark, but found they had been buried 
in a drift, and after digging all day had to come away without 
them. On our way back we dug out the sledges which had been 
nearly buried. When we got back we found Abbott and Dicka- 
son had been all round the Coves after seals, but without success. 
We are still short of sledging meat, having only five bags of 
cut up meat, and we shall require eight. The allowance will be 
two mugs per day for each man, and each bag contains forty-two 
mugs, or one week’s meat for each tent. 
A thin scum of ice formed over the bay, but even if the sea 
ice did form now I should not trust it for sledging. 
September 12.—Overcast and low drift. I am repairing 
Levick’s sleeping-bag and putting a new flap on my own; a slow 
job when one has to work by the light of a blubber lamp. 
September 13.—Browning and Dickason saw a seal with a 
fish in its mouth, but he would not come up on the ice. These two 
are still very bad with diarrhoea, and we are giving them fresh 
water hoosh to see if that does any good. 
September 14.—Browning was very bad in the night. I wish 
we had a change of diet to give him. He has been ill, off and 
on, for five months now and has been very cheerful through it 
all. Priestley and Dickason are also down with enteritis but are 
not so bad. We have some Oxo and I shall try Browning on 
this before sledging. The rest of us are feeling fairly fit. At the 
beginning of this month we started Swedish exercises, and will 
keep it up until we start sledging, as our leg muscles have shrunk 
to nothing. As the hut is not nearly 6 feet high we are obliged 
to do these exercises and all our other work without standing 
upright, and this has given rise to what we called the ‘ Igloo 
Back,’ which is caused by the stretching of the ligaments round 
the spine and is very painful. 
September 17.—A fine morning. Priestley and Abbott went 
over to the moraine depot to dig for the specimens, while Dicka- 
son and I dug out the sledges which had been buried again. 
After a hard day’s work we got our sledges clear, and brought 
up the tent poles to shorten and repair for sledging. Getting 
back late we heard that Priestley had found a seal, which he and 
Browning killed and cut up. There has been great rejoicing to- 
