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nothing but a foolish conceit. Few things pay better 
for their transportation. It will be allowed that Admiral 
Peary knows something about food values. Here is 
what he says in The North Pole: ‘The essentials, and 
the only essentials, needed in a serious Arctic sledge 
journey, no matter what the season, the temperature, 
or the duration of the journey — whether one month or 
six— are four: pemmican, tea, ship’s biscuit, condensed 
milk. The standard daily ration for work on the final 
sledge journey toward the Pole on all expeditions has 
been as follows : 1 lb. pemmican, 1 lb. ship’s biscuit, 4 oz. 
condensed milk, y 2 oz. compressed tea.’ 
“Milk, either evaporated or powdered, is a very im- 
portant ingredient in camp cookery. 
€t Butter — This is another ‘soft’ thing that pays its 
freight. 
VFor ordinary trips it suffices to pack butter firmly 
into pry-up tin cans which have been sterilized by thor- 
ough scalding and then cooled in a perfectly clean place. 
Keep it in a spring or in cold running water (hung in a 
net, or weighted in a rock) whenever you can. When 
traveling, wrap the cold can in a towel or other insulat- 
ing material. 
“If I had to cut out either lard or butter I would 
keep the butter. It serves all the purposes of lard in 
cooking, is wholesomer, and beyond that, it is the most 
concentrated sauce of energy that one can use with 
impunity. 
“ Cheese — Cheese has nearly twice the fuel value of 
a porterhouse steak of equal weight, and it contains a 
fourth more protein. It is popularly supposed to be 
hard to digest, but in reality it is not so if used in mod- 
eration. The best kind for campers is potted cheese, or 
cream or ‘snappy’ cheese put up in tinfoil. If not so 
protected from air it soon dries out and grows stale. 
