This was most fortunate.

After passing a second cairn everything became blotted out, and so we were forced to camp, after covering 4 miles 703 yds.

The dogs are feeling the pangs of hunger and devouring everything they see.

They will eat anything except rope.

If we had not wasted those three days we might have been able to give them a good feed at the Bluff depot, but now that is impossible.