The last of our cocoa was used to-day.

Henceforth water, with an occasional drink of weak milk, is to be our only beverage.

Three lumps of sugar were now issued to each man daily.
One night one of the dogs broke loose and played havoc with our precious stock of bannocks.

He ate four and half of a fifth before he could be stopped.

The remaining half, with the marks of the dog's teeth on it, I gave to Worsley, who divided it up amongst his seven tent-mates; they each received about half a square inch.
Lees, who was in charge of the food and responsible for its safe keeping, wrote in his diary: "The shorter the provisions the more there is to do in the commissariat department, contriving to eke out our slender stores as the weeks pass by.