Decided to have the meal we kept for getting under way.

Sang out to the Skipper's party that we should shift as soon as we had a meal.

I asked Wild, and found they had a bag of oatmeal, some Bovril cubes, one bag of chocolate, and eighteen biscuits, so they are much better off than we are.

After we had our meal we started to dig out our sledge, which we found right under.

It took us two hours, and one would hardly credit how weak we were.