150 WILHELM LAUB. 
visions for thirty-two days and food for six dogs for thirty days, so 
calculated that two of the dogs were to be killed during the journey 
as food for the remaining ones. 
The daily ration for the men was the same as that allotted to 
the main party, and consisted of 0.98 kg. daily, whilst for the dogs it 
was based upon 0.30 kg. of dog pemmican. 
The rest of the equipment was as shown in the following. 
Cooking utensils. 
Case for the utensils. 
Primus apparatus with grill (the grill was very quickly discarded, it 
having proved quite useless). 
Spare parts for the Primus, consisting of four leather packings, four 
ebonite packings, one top piece, one mouthpiece, six asbestos pack- 
ings and twenty-four spare cleaning-needles. 
Funnel for filling petroleum. 
2 cooking pots with lids. 
3 bowls. 
3 spoons. 
1 keg of spirit. 
3 can-openers. 
2 packets of matches, one of which was in a soldered tin box, in case 
the sledge got into the water. 
Total weight = 8.3 kg. 
Sledge equipment. 
Sledge. 
— mast. 
— sail. 
Tackle. 
Spare harness (3). 
100 metres of alpine rope. 
1 pair of skis. 
1 ski-staff. 
Weight = about 39 kg. 
We had only one pair of skis with us, I being the only one of the 
party accustomed to use them, and it was thought I might in this 
manner walk ahead of the sledge. As will be seen later on, they proved 
of great utility in another way. 
Ice equipment. 
1 spade. 
1 ice hook. 
1 axe. 
Weight = about 41|, kg. 
