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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [September 
four of us most of the day^ and I left the two sick men in the 
hut, cleaning the cookers, until the last load. 
It came on very thick with snow in the afternoon and 
it was 6.30 P.M. before we pulled out. Snow drifts made 
the pulling heavy and by 8.30 we had only pulled a mile, 
and as we were all pretty tired after our long day^s carrying 
we camped. Dickason was bad in the night, but we are all 
very cheerful at being on the march again, and the change 
from the dirt and dark of the igloo will do us all good. 
Our sledging rations also seemed sumptuous, the daily 
ration per man being : 
2 pannikins of meat. i stick of chocolate, 
f pannikin of blubber. 8 lumps of sugar. 
I pannikin of cocoa. A little pemmican. 
3 biscuits. 
At the commencement of the winter we had some spare 
wind clothing, sweaters, mits, and underclothing, which 
we had landed from the ship. This I put on one side for 
the journey down and only issued it before leaving the 
igloo. There was not enough of everything to go round, 
but by making the clothes into lots and drawing for them 
we all got something. To keep them clean we only changed 
into them just before leaving the igloo, but the luxury of 
getting into dry clean clothing after the greasy rags we 
discarded was indescribable. We had been in the same 
clothes for nine months, carrying, cooking, and handling 
blubber, and all our garments were black and soaked 
through and through with grease. We were fairly well off for 
paraffin as we had only used the primus to cook our morn- 
ing hoosh. Dickason's generosity in volunteering to work 
