REVISED RATIONS 15 



our tent in I y* 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: 



Pemmican 12 ozs. 



Biscuit 1 6 ozs. 



Butter 4 ozs. (we rarely eat more 



than 2 ozs.) 

 Bowers' diet was now: 



Pemmican 12 ozs. 



Biscuit 1 6 ozs. 



Extra pemmican .... 4 ozs. (rarely eaten). 



