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of cut-up meat, and we shall require eight. The allowance 
will be two mugs per day for each man, and each bag 
contains forty-two mugs, or one week's meat for each tent. 
A thin scum of ice formed over the bay, but even if the 
sea ice did form now I should not trust it for sledging. 
September 12. — Overcast and low drift. I am 
repairing Lcvick's sleeping-bag and putting a new flap 
on my own ; a slow job when one has to work by the light 
of a blubber lamp. 
September 13. — Browning and Dickason saw a seal 
with a fish in its mouth, but he would not come up on the 
ice. These two are still very bad with diarrhoea, and we are 
giving them fresh-water hoosh to see if that does any good. 
September 14. — Browning was very bad in the night. 
I wish we had a change of diet to give him. He has been 
ill, off and on, for five months now and has been very 
cheerful through it all. Priestley and Dickason are also 
down with enteritis but are not so bad. We have some 
Oxo and I shall try Browning on this before sledging. The 
rest of us are feeling fairly fit. At the beginning of this 
month we started Swedish exercises, and will keep it up 
until we start sledging, as our leg muscles have shrunk to 
nothing. As the hut is not nearly 6 feet high we are 
obliged to do these exercises and all our other work with- 
out standing upright, and this has given rise to what we 
called the ^ Igloo Back,' which is caused by the stretching 
of the ligaments round the spine and is very painful. 
September \ j. — A fine morning. Priestley and Abbott 
went over to the moraine depot to dig for the specimens, 
while Dickason and I dug out the sledges, which had been 
