I9II] THE CAIRN BURIED IN SNOW 295 
flagstaff of Corner Camp. On arriving at the depot 
found the whole cairn buried thus : 
so dug out all the forenoon and eventually got all stores 
out and tallied. We left one tin of biscuits here, two 
bags of treacle, six bags of butter, and six tins of 
paraffin. We put all biscuit tins and sacks of oats on 
end on the top of the cairn we built. The complete 
tally of stores is : 
Sledging biscuits 
9 cases 
Cocoa 
6 bags 
Butter 
. 14 bags 
Oil 
. II cans 
Cheese 
• 6 „ 
Oats 
3 sacks 
Tea 
2 tins 
Sugar 
6 bags 
Fodder 
■| bale 
Chocolate . 
. 6 „ 
Pemmican . 
6 bags 
Raisins 
. 6 „ 
Cereals 
. 6 „ 
Treacle 
• 2 „ 
The cairn is now like this : 
We left at 5 p.m. and started to march to Hut 
Point — non-stop run — as I wished to get my gear 
