IS2 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [September 
worse, so evidently a seal meat and blubber diet is healthy 
enough. Strangely enough we do not get tired of it. 
From the top of the hill I could see sea ice on the 
horizon, but the bay remains open. 
September 5. — A very heavy gale has been blowing 
since the first, keeping all hands inside the hut. We have 
had an epidemic of enteritis which is hard to account for, 
as we are eating seal meat that has never seen the sun, 
but I think the ' oven ' or tin we thaw the meat ou t 
in may have had something to do with it, so we have 
condemned it. 
It is a great pity getting this a few weeks before 
starting sledging, as it is making us all so weak. 
September 6. — A great improvement in the public 
health due to Levick's wisely curtailing the hoosh. I have 
been the least affected, but Browning and Dickason are 
still very bad. I hope this may be the end of it, as we 
are still all weak, and for the first time in the winter 
there has been a general gloom. The weather has been 
vile, but improved to-day. 
September 11. — The best day we have had yet, bright 
and clear with a light westerly wind. Priestley and I 
went over to the depot moraine to look at the geological 
specimens and put them round the bamboo mark, but 
found they had been buried in a drift, and after digging all 
day had to come away without them. On our way back 
we dug out the sledges, which had been nearly buried. 
When we got back we found Abbott and Dickason had 
been all round the coves after seals, but without success. 
We are still short of sledging meat, having only five bags 
