The dog-pemmican we also added to our own larder, feeding the dogs on the seals which we caught, after removing such portions as were necessary for our own needs.

We were rather short of crockery, but small pieces of venesta-wood served admirably as plates for seal steaks; stews and liquids of all sorts were served in the aluminium sledging-mugs, of which each man had one.

Later on, jelly-tins and biscuit-tin lids were pressed into service.
Monotony in the meals, even considering the circumstances in which we found ourselves, was what I was striving to avoid, so our little stock of luxuries, such as fish-paste, tinned herrings, etc., was carefully husbanded and so distributed as to last as long as possible.

My efforts were not in vain, as one man states in his diary: "It must be admitted that we are feeding very well indeed, considering our position.

Each meal consists of one course and a beverage.