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and the sledges were hoisted on the davits, so that they could be 

 let down at a moment's notice in case of need. 



The petroleum launch, which was of no use to us as it was, but 

 would afford good materials for runners and other things, was 

 brought from the great hummock and taken to pieces. It was 

 built of choice elm, and a couple of planks were immediately 

 used for runners to those of the sledges, which, for lack of ma- 

 terial, were as yet unprovided with these appliances. 



The medicine-chest, which had also lain in depot at the great 

 hummock, was fetched and stowed away in one of the lono-- 

 boats, which had been placed on the pressure-ridge hard by the 

 ship. The contents had taken no harm, and nothing had burst 

 with the frost, although there were several medicines in the 

 chest which contained no more than 10 per cent, of alcohol. 



At that time we were also busy selecting and weighing provis- 

 ions and stores for eleven men for a seventy days' sledging expedi- 

 tion and a six months' sojourn on the ice. The kinds of provisions 

 and their weight will be seen from the accompanying table : 



Seventy Days' Sledge Provisions for Eleven 



Cadbury's chocolate, 5 boxes of 48 pounds 



Meat chocolate 



Wheaten bread, 16 boxes of 44 pounds 

 Danish butter, 12 tins of 28 pounds 

 Lime-juice tablets .... 

 Fish flour (Professor Vage'.s) 

 Viking potatoes, 3 tins of 26 pounds 

 Knorr's pea-soup .... 



lentil-soup 



bean-soup .... 

 Bovril, 2 boxes .... 

 Vril-food, I box .... 

 Oatmeal, i box .... 

 Serin powder, i box 

 Aleuronate bread, 5 boxes of 50 pounds 

 Pemmican, 6 boxes 

 7 sacks 



Liver, i sack 



Total .... 



Besides these we took salt, pepper, and mustard 



Men 



Pounds 

 240 



-5 

 704 



336 



50 



7« 



5 



5 



5 



104 



48 



80 



50 

 250 



340 

 59^ 

 102 



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