240 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [November 
whacked out if you hadn't had it already. I made mine 
last lunch and supper by putting a bit by, though some- 
times the bit vanished under the hot hoosh if I forgot 
to take it out of the pannikin. Three biscuits each 
and a cake of chocolate. 
Supper. — Cocoa follows hoosh. We have two biscuits 
and a cake of chocolate. One spoon was used in our 
camp for measuring, stirring, tasting, eating soup and 
tea, &c. — all alternating gaily as different operations 
employ the cook. I believe other camps followed 
the rule, ' One man — one spoon — one cup,' but we 
were strictly socialistic. If your tea or hoosh was too 
hot you stood it on the floor. If you didn't watch it, 
it might melt its way out of sight — but that was a most 
infrequent incident. * Shut-eye ' was played to ensure 
fair division ; the cook pointing to the fragments of 
chocolate or butter and the blind person giving one 
of our names. The cook has to share out food, stir the 
hoosh, watch the primus, and generally hop around ; so 
that he has a busy time. This doesn't matter except 
at supper, when he doesn't get his feet warm in dry socks 
as soon as the others. 
When the snow stopped, Gran and I walked to the 
root of the ice tongue and climbed up the granite cliffs 
to the west of it. On the top we found a bare plateau 
300 yards wide on which were some large lichens and 
a small patch of true moss, quite perky at +15° and 
evidently prepared to grow vigorously if permitted. 
The tongue was a mile long and exhibited the usual 
regular waves in its profile. 
