SEAL AND PENGUIN MEAT 



terminated near the coast in rather a steep slope, and 

 gradually became confluent with the Drygalski Glacier. 

 To the south of this glacier, which may be termed the 

 Mount Larsen Glacier, was another great mountain 

 massif with Mount Belligshausen on the north and 

 Mount Neumaer on the south. The foot-hils of Mount 

 Neumaer terminated in steep precipices forming the 

 northern wall of the Drygalski Glacier. 



Our first business was to lay in a stock of provisions 

 sufficient to last us for our 500 miles of further journeying. 

 Mackay started for a small inlet about a mile and a half 

 distant from our camp, where he found a number of 

 seals and Emperor and Adelie penguins. He killed 

 some seals and Emperor penguins, and loaded a good 

 supply of seal steak, blubber, liver and penguin steak 

 and liver on to the sledge. In the course of his hunting, 

 he fell through an ice bridge, at a tide-crack, up to his 

 waist in the water. Mawson and I went out to meet him 

 when the sledge was loaded, and helped to drag it back to 

 camp. We found it very hot in the tent, the weather 

 being fine and sunny. It was dehghtful to be able at 

 last to rest our weary limbs after the many weeks of 

 painful toil over the sea ice and the Drygalski Glacier. 



We started cooking our meat for the sledging trip on 

 the following day, December 13, our intention being to 

 take with us provisions for seven weeks, in addition to 

 equipment, including scientific instruments, &c. We 

 estimated that the total weight would amount to about 

 670 lb. We were doubtful, in our then stale and weak- 

 ened condition, whether we should be able to pull such 

 a load over the deep loose snow ahead of us, and then 

 drag it up the steep ice slopes of the great glaciers which 

 guarded the route to the plateau. 



The sun was so hot that it started melting the 

 fat out of our pemmican bags, so that the fat actually 



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