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for each of us) in case we should have to leave the 
hut suddenly, and of course the nearest deó; at the 
foot of Cape Adare would have given us shelter. 
There in a cavity we had, besides tents, a full outfit of 
provisions and fur to last for a few months, so with 
the additional provisions which we should have 
* DR. KLÓVSTAD FROM TIME TO TIME TESTED OUR PULSE WITH 
A PULSOMETER." 
brought from the hut in the knapsacks, we should not 
have starved. 
The health all through kept remarkably well up to 
this, ——due greatly, I believe, to the great care with 
which I had selected the tinned food, and by the 
incessant toil of the doctor in the food department. 
Tins were always scrutinised by him, and carefully 
he made up the menus for the week. 
