igiij REVISED RATIONS 23 
my allowance of 8 ozs. of butter a day. The most I have 
managed has been about 2 or 3 ozs. 
Bowers has also found it impossible to cat his extra 
allowance of pemmican for lunch. 
So yesterday — that is, a fortnight out — wc decided that 
Cherry and I should both alter our dietary, he to take 
4 ozs. a day of my butter and I to take two of his biscuits, 
i.e. 4 ozs., in exchange. 
This brought Cherry's diet and mine to the same. 
Bowers continued his diet, taking his extra pemmican 
when he felt it possible— but this became increasingly 
less frequent and all tJie way home he went without it. 
Cherry's diet and mine was now, per diem : 
Pemmican . , .12 ozs. 
Biscuit . . .16 ozs. 
Butter ... 4 ozs. (we rarely eat 
more than 2 ozs,) 
Bowers' diet was now : 
Pemmican . . .12 ozs. 
Biscuit . , .16 ozs. 
Extra pemmican . . 4 ozs. (rarely eaten). 
Our daily routine was, for breakfast, to have first tea, 
then pemmican and biscuit ; for lunch, tea and biscuit 
(and butter for Cherry and myself) ; for supper, hot 
water and pemmican and biscuit. 
We none of us missed sugar or cocoa, or any of the 
other foods we have been used to on sledge journeys, and 
we all found we were amply satisfied on this diet. Cocoa 
would have been pleasanter at night than plain hot water, 
but the hot water with biscuit soaked in it was very good. 
