GETTING HUNGRIER 
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Our sleeping-bags are slowly but surely getting wetter 
and I'm afraid it will take a lot of this weather to put 
them right. However, we all sleep well enough in them, 
the hours allowed being now on the short side. We are 
slowly getting more hungry, and it would be an advantage 
to have a little more food, especially for lunch. If we 
get to the next depot in a few marches (it is now less than 
60 miles and we have a full week's food) we ought to be 
able to open out a little, but we can't look for a real feed 
till we get to the pony food depot. A long way to go, and, 
by Jove, this is tremendous labour. 
Sunday, January 28. — Lunch, -20 0 . Height, night, 
10,130. R. H. Supper Temp. -18 0 . Little wind and 
heavy going in forenoon. We just ran out 8 miles in 5 
hours and added another 8 in 3 hours 40 mins. in the 
afternoon with a good wind and better surface. It is very 
difficult to say if we arc going up or down hill ; the baro- 
meter is quite different from outward readings. We arc 
43 miles from the depot, with six days' food in hand. 
We arc camped opposite our lunch cairn of the 4th, only 
half a day's march from the point at which the last 
supporting party left us. 
Three articles were dropped on our outward march — 
Oates' pipe, Bowers' fur mits, and Evans' night boots. 
We picked up the boots and mits on the track, and 
to-night we found the pipe lying placidly in sight on the 
snow. The sledge tracks were very easy to follow to-day ; 
they arc becoming more and more raised, giving a good 
line shadow often visible half a mile ahead. If this goes 
on and the weather holds we shall get our depot without 
