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with his hind leg, and that he had been put under 
shelter. This morning the poor brute was found dead. 
Vm afraid we can place but little reliance on our dog 
teams and reflect ruefully on the misplaced confidence 
with which I regarded the provision of our transport. 
Well, one must suffer for errors of judgment. 
This afternoon Wilson held a post-mortem on the 
dog ; he could find no sufficient cause of death. This 
is the third animal that has died at winter quarters 
without apparent cause. Wilson, who is nettled, proposes 
to examine the brain of this animal to-morrow. 
Went up the Ramp this morning. There was light 
enough to see our camp, and it looked homely, as it does 
from all sides. Somehow we loom larger here than at 
Cape Armitagc. We seem to be more significant. It 
must be from contrast of size; the larger hills tend to 
dwarf the petty human element. 
To-night the wind has gone back to the north and is 
now blowing fresh. 
This sudden and continued complete change of direction 
is new to our experience. 
Oates has just given us an excellent little lecture on the 
management of horses. 
He explained his plan of feeding our animals * soft ' 
during the winter, and hardening them up during the 
spring. He pointed out that the horse's natural food 
being grass and hay, he would naturally employ a great 
number of hours in the day filling a stomach of small 
capacity with food from which he could derive only a 
small percentage of nutriment. 
