134 
SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [April 
In fact we are saturated to the skin with blubber, and 
our clothes in consequence feel very cold. 
When we kill a seal, we cut out the heart, liver, and 
kidneys ; then cut the meat up into convenient joints 
and the blubber and skin into pieces about 2 feet square, 
which w^e can carry up on our backs and flense in the 
hut. We also preserve the head, as besides its meat it 
contains the greatest delicacy of all, the brain. The 
gale came on harder than ever in the afternoon. 
Browning and I are suffering from dysentery. 
March 29 to April 5. — High wind and bitterly cold. 
We all get frostbitten constantly while working at the 
hut, and most of us are suffering from dysentery. 
April 5. — A great improvement in the weather, 
and we got on well with the hut. We also carried up 
a lot of our things from the depot. In the evening just 
as we were stopping work I saw three seals up on the 
ice, so we turned out again and killed and butchered them. 
This makes sixteen seals, and if we can march early 
should put us out of danger with regard to food. To 
celebrate the occasion Priestley allowed us an extra 
biscuit each. 
April 7. — Northerly gales and drift since the 5th. 
The way from the hut to the ice foot is strewn with huge 
boulders, and it is a difficult job walking over these in a 
gale of wind without a load, while when one is staggering 
up under a load of meat or blubber, it is particularly 
maddening. When a squall catches you, over you go 
between two boulders, with your legs in the air and the 
load of blubber holding you down firmly. Our boots 
