When they were about a mile and a half away their voices were quite audible to us at Ocean Camp, so still was the air.
We were, of course, very short of the farinaceous element in our diet.
The flour would last ten weeks.

After that our sledging rations would last us less than three months.

Our meals had to consist mainly of seal and penguin; and though this was valuable as an anti-scorbutic, so much so that not a single case of scurvy occurred amongst the party, yet it was a badly adjusted diet, and we felt rather weak and enervated in consequence.
"The cook deserves much praise for the way he has stuck to his job through all this severe blizzard.

His galley consists of nothing but a few boxes arranged as a table, with a canvas screen erected around them on four oars and the two blubber-stoves within.

The protection afforded by the screen is only partial, and the eddies drive the pungent blubber-smoke in all directions." After a few days we were able to build him an igloo of ice-blocks, with a tarpaulin over the top as a roof.
"Our rations are just sufficient to keep us alive, but we all feel that we could eat twice as much as we get.