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CONQUERING THE ARCTIC ICE 



contains all the necessary elements for sustaining life as on one 

 which gives a different bill of fare for every day of the week. It 

 has been said that people get tired of eating the same food day 

 after day, which, of course, may be true, but it is of no great 

 importance as long as the nourishment is there. A man will 

 eat when he is hungry, and as that is a common complaint on 

 a sledge trip, no measures need be taken to induce him to do so. 

 Both Mr. Lemngwell and myself on former expeditions had 

 had ample opportunity to know the qualities of pemmican, and 

 we were not very enthusiastic about it, as we both had found it 

 rather indigestible. However, not so much that as the rather 

 large amount of water which the pemmican contains, and must 

 contain, in spite of the great care taken in manufacturing, 

 induced us to try something else, and we made two rations, one 

 with Horlick's malted milk as a base, and the other with 

 pemmican as a base. 



ONE MAN'S DAILY RATION DURING SLEDGE TRIPS ON DIFFERENT EXPEDITIONS 



EXPRESSED IN OUNCES AND TENTHS OF OUNCES. 



