The sharp white peaks of Elephant Island showed to the west of north a little later in the day.
"I have stopped issuing sugar now, and our meals consist of seal meat and blubber only, with 7 ozs.

of dried milk per day for the party," I wrote.

"Each man receives a pinch of salt, and the milk is boiled up to make hot drinks for all hands.

The diet suits us, since we cannot get much exercise on the floe and the blubber supplies heat.

Fried slices of blubber seem to our taste to resemble crisp bacon.