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to feel the influence of their new diet; but Wilson and 
Brooks do not react. Their inclination for food, or 
rather their toleration of it, is so much impaired that 
they reject meat in its raw state, and when cooked it 
is much less prompt and efficient in its action. My 
mode of serving it out is this:—Each man has his 
saucer of thinly-sliced frozen walrus-heart, with lime- 
juice or vinegar, before breakfast; at breakfast, blood- 
gravy with wheaten bread; at dinner, steaks slightly 
stewed or fried, without limit of quantity; none at tea 
proper; but at 8 p.m. a renewed allowance of raw 
slices and vinegar. It shows how broken down the 
party is, that under the appetizing stimulations of an 
Arctic sky all our convalescents and well men together 
are content with some seven pounds of meat. Their 
prostrate comrades are sustained by broth.” 
ICE-RAFT. 
