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fossil wood and many other excellent fossils, garnets, etc., besides
which Campbell did good work surveying. A new glacier was named after
Priestley and another after Campbell.

More fossils were discovered on February 1, and a quantity of lichens,
shells, worm casts, and sponge spicules were discovered in the locality
of Evans Coves, to which the party returned. On February 17 they began to
look for the "Terra Nova," but as time went on and she did not put in an
appearance Campbell prepared to winter. Pennell as we know had met with
ice conditions that were insuperable, and he never got the ship within 30
miles of the coast. Pennell, Rennick, and Bruce did all that men could do
to work the "Terra Nova" through, but communication was impossible that
season, and the Northern Party was left to face the rigours of a Polar
winter with nothing more than four weeks' sledging ration and 270 lb. of
biscuits extra. His companions could not have been better chosen to help
Campbell through this ordeal. The leader knew his men absolutely, and
they themselves were lucky in having such a resourceful and determined
officer in charge.

On March 1 Victor Campbell selected a hard snow slope for the winter
home, and into this he and his men cut and burrowed until they had
constructed an igloo or snow house, 13 feet by 9: They insulated this
with blocks of snow and seaweed. A trench roofed with sealskins and snow
formed the entrance, and at the sides of this passage they had their
store rooms and larder.

All the time this house was under construction a party was employed
killing penguins and seals, for which they kept a constant lookout. By
March 15 their larder contained 120 penguins and 11 seals. After this
date gale succeeded gale and the winter set in with a long run of bad
weather. Campbell and his companions led a very primitive existence here
for six and a half months.

They only had their light summer sledging clothes to wear, and these soon
became saturated with blubber: their hair and beards grew, and they were
soon recognisable only by their voices. Some idea of their discomforts
will be gleaned by a description of their diet. Owing to their
prospective journey to Cape Evans, Campbell had first to reduce the
biscuit supply from eight to two biscuits a day, and then to one.

Generally their diet consisted of one mug of "pemmican and seal hoosh"
and a biscuit for breakfast, _nothing_ for lunch, a mug and a half of
seal, o