I had all the discarded seals' heads and flippers dug up and stripped of every vestige of blubber.

Meat was very short too.

We still had our three months' supply of sledging food practically untouched; we were only to use this as a last resort.

We had a small supply of dog- pemmican, the dogs that were left being fed on those parts of the seals that we could not use.

This dog-pemmican we fried in suet with a little flour and made excellent bannocks.
Our meat supply was now very low indeed; we were reduced to just a few scraps.