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any other place, he settled there, and has now lived here for 

 five winters. 



Some vegetarian food which had been put up by Mr. Eustace 

 Miles, London, was found to be spoiled through some bottles 

 of soup having fermented and cracked. We opened all the 

 other boxes, about ten in number, and found that the same 



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was the case with every one of them. We had plenty of 

 sledging provisions, so it did not matter much, but we should 

 have liked to experiment with the food. 



The weather, which was cold when Mr. Leffingwell started 

 for Herschel Island, changed on October 23 and became com- 

 paratively warm. The temperature rose to 2 C. At the same 

 time it was snowing, and we thought that if the party had 

 the same kind of weather they would have a very unpleasant time 

 in dragging the heavy sledges through the soft and sticky snow. 



The work of getting the ship into winter shape was now 

 finished, and the ordinary winter routine begun. 



We turned out at 7 A.M., when the cabin and forecastle were 

 cleaned out, fires lit, and at 8 breakfast was served. The 

 hours after breakfast were spent in cleaning lamps, pumping 

 out the ship, clearing away the snow from the deck, and cutting 

 up meat for dog-feed. The men were usually occupied in this 

 manner until 12.30, when we had another meal of tea, bread, 

 and butter, with jam thrice weekly. From 1.30 to 4 P.M. the 

 men were doing all sorts of odd jobs, such as making dog 



