ne biscuit and three-quarters of a pint of thin cocoa for supper.
On Sundays weak tea was substituted for cocoa, this they re-boiled for
Mondays' supper, and the dried leaves were used for tobacco on Tuesdays.
Their only luxuries were a piece of chocolate and twelve lumps of sugar,
weekly, and twenty-five raisins apiece were kept for birthdays. One lucky
find was thirty-six fish in the stomach of a seal, which fried in blubber
proved excellent. The biscuit ration had to be stopped entirely from July
to September. The six men cooked their food in sea-water as they had no
salt, and seaweed was used as a vegetable. Priestley is reported to have
disliked it, and no wonder, for it has probably rotted in the sun for
years, and the penguins have trampled it all down, apart from anything
worse.

Campbell kept a wonderful discipline in his party, and as they were
sometimes confined to the igloo for days, Swedish drill was introduced to
keep them healthy. A glance at their weather record shows how necessary
this was. We find one day snowing hard, next day blowing hard, and the
third day blowing and snowing hard, nearly all through the winter. But
there was never a complaint.

On Sunday divine service was performed, which consisted of Campbell
reading a chapter of the Bible, followed by hymns. They had no hymn book,
but Priestley remembered several, while Abbott, Browning and Dickason had
all been at some time or other in a choir.

To add to their discomfort, owing to the state of their clothing and
meagre food supply, they were very susceptible to frostbites, and Jack
Frost made havoc with feet, fingers, and faces.

We should here give a little thought to the dark dreariness of their
surroundings. This party was not so very far north of Cape Evans, and
their winter was only about three weeks shorter if measured by the sun's
absence below the horizon--the contrast between the "palace" at Cape
Evans and the ice-cave at Campbell's position is ridiculous, and to think
that the little crew remained cheerful and in harmony under such
troglodyte conditions, it makes one wonder more and more at the manner of
the men. They had none of the comfort, entertainment, and good feeling of
their co-explorers at the base, the very dimensions of their habitation
explains for itself the cramped nature of their existence, and yet no
complaints, and nothing but unswerving loyalty to their boss. Weaker
minded men would have broken down mentally unde