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make a complete change of diet, which probably would be 

 beneficial, and even if it took much longer time to boil rice or 

 beans than pemmican or malted milk, the heat generated by 

 the Primus lamp, while cooking, would heat the tent as well. 

 There is no doubt that a change of this description would be 





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pleasant as well as healthy, and would help to pass the gloomy 

 days spent in the bags in a pleasant manner. 



We are always bound to get some bad weather, and can 

 safely count on at least one day a week; so these extra provisions 

 could be arranged before starting, so as to have enough for one 

 day in every week the expedition was supposed to last. 



Simple rations like ours could be packed much more 

 economically than complicated ones, and a comparatively great 

 weight could be saved through the smaller amount of packing 

 materials. Our provisions were packed in packages containing 

 the different articles of food required for one week, and the parcels 

 were so large that they could easily be packed on the sledge. 

 Our biscuits were in one pound packages, and fourteen of these 



