"Clark put our saucepanful in his sleeping-bag to-day to keep it hot, and it really was a great success in spite of the extra helping of reindeer hairs that it contained.

In this way we can make ten penguin skins do for one day." Some who were fortunate enough to catch penguins with fairly large undigested fish in their gullets used to warm these up in tins hung on bits of wire round the stove.
"All the meat intended for hooshes is cut up inside the hut, as it is too cold outside.

As the boards which we use for the purpose are also used for cutting up tobacco, when we still have it, a definite flavour is sometimes imparted to the hoosh, which, if anything, improves it." Their diet was now practically all meat, and not too much of that, and all the diaries bear witness to their craving for carbohydrates, such as flour, oatmeal, etc.

One man longingly speaks of the cabbages which grow on Kerguelen Island.

By June 18 there were only nine hundred lumps of sugar left, i.e., just over forty pieces each.