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^Baumann required for his party 240 days' rations, about 530 Ibs. 

 Isachsen and Hassel 100 days' rations .... ,, 220 ,, 

 Sverdrup and Fosheim 100 days' rations .-.-.,, 220 



Schei and Peder 80 days' rations .., 175 



Bay 90 days' rations 200 



In all 1345 



Of dog-food we required 3050 rations, or nominally 3350 Ibs., 

 as each allowance was calculated at l-^o lb. In order, however, to 

 economize the patent food, which consisted of equal parts beef-suet 

 and fish-flour, we took with us a quantity of blubber and fish, of 

 which the dogs required a ration of 1| lb. (13 ozs. blubber and 

 15 ozs. stock-fish), and thus the actual weight of the dog-food was 

 considerably greater than the above figures. 



We were taking with us nine teams, which properly should 

 have consisted of fifty-four dogs ; but in reality there were fifty- 

 five, as Bay had seven dogs to his team. How this originally 

 came about I no longer remember, but nearly all the time his 

 had been a team of seven. This much I remember, that it was not 

 owing to Bay's weighty frame, but to old love between the dogs. 



These dogs are curious animals. At the making up of the 

 teams of two friends, one only had been included in Bay's team. 

 This the excluded one could not forget, and haunted the team, 

 early and late. Now, a team will not stand any interference 

 from outsiders, and the consequence was that the other five fought 

 the unfortunate animal time after time ; but to show them how 

 amiable was his disposition, he merely turned over on his back, 

 whined, and let them maul him as much as they liked without, 

 as far as I saw, ever attempting to pay them back. It is one way 

 of making one's self agreeable! Still, so much love deserved its 

 reward, and eventually had it. He went on ingratiating him- 

 self with the others in this manner for such a long time,, that 

 at last he was acknowledged and taken as seventh man into 

 the team. 



Of instruments, each party took with them a pocket-chrono- 

 meter, and a quicksilver- and a toluol-thermometer. Schei, in 

 addition, had an ordinary pocket-sextant with a mercury horizon, 

 Isachsen a theodolite, compass, and pocket-compass, and I a 



