Suc Winter in Victoria Land. ТБ? 
FRIDAY. 
Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. 
Porridge Cocoa Milk soup 
Ham Cabin biscuits Dry fish 
Bread and butter Ham Pressed potatoes 
Tea and coffee Cheese 
Jam 
Marmalade 
SATURDAY. 
Porridge Cocoa Sweet soup 
. Ham Cabin biscuits Army rations 
Bread and butter Herrings 
Sardines 
Cheese 
Jam 
Marmalade 
Seal beef and roasted penguin flesh became later 
a frequent repast, as we grew frightfully tired of 
tinned food. 
ge meals at Camp Ridley lasted, on great 
occasions, ten minutes; often less than five minutes 
on ordinary occasions. Pipes were lit after meals, 
and the doctor and I generally indulged in a game 
of chess if both of us happened to be in camp at 
fie time. 
Br Winns played at «Sakkos (a kind of 
chess), a Finn game full of remarkable formalities 
to be observed. These two shouted and jumped 
during their game, and it was a wonder they did 
not upset the little board on which they played. 
The most trying time within the Antarctic Circle 
was the dark period. The strongest man must 
needs feel the effect of it more or less. The same- 
ness of those cold, dark nights attacks the minds 
of men like a sneaking evil spirit. We found that 
