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allowed on the Journey is enough, but if any waste takes 

 place it means extra precautions in the handling of it. Mr. 

 Evans is still without pemmican and seems to have some- 

 what recovered from the looseness, but things are not by a 

 long way with him as they should be. Only two more 

 depots now to pick up. 



7,ist January 19 12. 



Another very- good run to-day but the light being very 

 bad we had to continually stop and steer by compass. This 

 a difficult task, especially as there was no wind to help keep 

 on the course, but it have cleared again to-night, the tem- 

 perature is plus 20 in the day and 10 at night just now. 

 Did 1 3 miles. Mr. Evans is allowed a little pemmican as 

 the work is hard and it wants a little warm food to put life 

 into anyone in this part of the world. 



1 st February 19 12. 



We had a very fine day but a very heavy pull, but we 

 did 13 miles. Mr. Evans and myself have been out ioo 

 days to-day. I have had to change my shirt again. This is 

 the last clean side I have got. I have been wearing two 

 shirts and each side will now have done duty next the skin, 

 as I have changed round each month, and I have certainly 

 found the benefit of it, and on the point we all three agree. 

 Mr. Evans is still gradually worse : it is no good closing 

 our eyes to the fact. We must push on as we have a long 

 way to go yet. 



2nd February 19 1 2. 



A very bad light again to-day : could not make much 

 progress, only did 1 1 miles, but we must think ourselves 

 lucky we have not had to lay up and get delayed, but we 

 have had the wind and more behind us, otherwise we 

 should have had to stop. Mr. Evans is no better but seems 

 to be in great pain, but he keeps quite cheerful we are 

 pleased to say. 



yd February 1 9 1 2. 



This morning we were forced to put Mr. Evans on his 

 ski and strap him on, as he could not lift his legs. I looked 

 at them again and found they are rapidly getting worse, 



