SLEDGE-JOURNEYS ASHORE AND AFLOAT. 197 



Under Baumanu's leadership all on board were in a state of 

 restless activity, getting out the various provisions which we hoped, 

 with the hut, in due course to set ashore. Each box was numbered 

 and its contents entered in the books. We prepared stores for 

 four men for two and a half years, and dog-food to last until far 

 into the future first of all the usual amount consumed by fifty 

 dogs in one winter, and then patent dog-food for seventy days' use 

 on sledge- journeys. The ammunition had to be seen to ; some 

 boats and the forge were to be landed, and not a thing must be 

 forgotten. In a word, there were countless things to be thought 

 out and arranged in such a manner that everything could be landed, 

 if necessarv, at a moment's notice. 



