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Calculation of Allowances — Packing — Cooking-apparatus — 

 Cooking-lamp —Permanent Weights of a Sledge Party- Spare 

 Clothing — Medical Bag — Details concerning Clothing and 

 General Equipment 298 



CHAPTER XI 



TYPICAL SLEDGING EXPERIENCES 



Use of Dogs for Sledging — A Discussion of their Merits— History 

 of our Dog Team— Discomforts of Sledge Travelling— Typical 

 Experiences— The Ordinary Routine— Result of a Blizzard— 

 Benefit of Summer Temperatures— Disadvantages of Summer — 

 The Fascination of Sledging ....... 34° 



CHAPTER XII 



THE SPRING JOURNEYS OF 1902 



Spring Sledging Plans— Start of Sledging Season —Parties leave the 

 Ship — Submarine Ice— Start on Southern Reconnaissance — An 

 Inopportune Blizzard— Return to the Ship — Fresh Start— Journey 

 to the Bluff— Difficult Travelling— Placing the Depot— Rapid 

 Return — Report of Outbreak of Scurvy— Experiences of Western 

 Party— Steps taken to Combat the Disease— Some Remarks on 

 the Nature of Scurvy— Causes which may have Led to our Out- 

 break — Impossibility of Determining its Exact Origin — Prospects 

 of Future South Polar Expeditions in this Respect . . . 374 



