Fortunately, however, we caught two seals and four emperor penguins, and next day forty adelies.

We had now only forty days' food left, and the lack of blubber was being keenly felt.

All our suet was used up, so we used seal-blubber to fry the meat in.

Once we were used to its fishy taste we enjoyed it; in fact, like Oliver Twist, we wanted more.
On Leap Year day, February 29, we held a special celebration, more to cheer the men up than for anything else.

Some of the cynics of the party held that it was to celebrate their escape from woman's wiles for another four years.