On one occasion a wonderful stew made from seal meat, with two or three tins of Irish stew that had been salved from the ship, fell into the fire through the bottom of the oil-drum that we used as a saucepan becoming burnt out on account of the sudden intense heat of the fire below.

We lunched that day on one biscuit and a quarter of a tin of bully-beef each, frozen hard.
This new stove, which was to last us during our stay at Ocean Camp, was a great success.

Two large holes were punched, with much labour and few tools, opposite one another at the wider or top end of the shoot.

Into one of these an oil-drum was fixed, to be used as the fireplace, the other hole serving to hold our saucepan.

Alongside this another hole was punched to enable two saucepans to be boiled at a time; and farther along still a chimney made from biscuit-tins completed a very efficient, if not a very elegant, stove.