The animals had plenty of seal meat and were tended carefully.
Mackintosh called a meeting of all hands on June 26 for the discussion of the plans he had made for the depot-laying expedition to be undertaken during the following spring and summer.
"I gave an outline of the position and invited discussion from the members.

Several points were brought up.

I had suggested that one of our party should remain behind for the purpose of keeping the meteorological records and laying in a supply of meat and blubber.

This man would be able to hand my instructions to the ship and pilot a party to the Bluff.

It had been arranged that Richards should do this.
Several objected on the ground that the whole complement would be necessary, and, after the matter had been put to the vote, it was agreed that we should delay the decision until the parties had some practical work and we had seen how they fared.