week. His idea is that by eating more blubber he will not feel the want
of the biscuit very much."

"July 4.--Southerly wind, with snow, noise of pressure at sea and the
ice in the Bay breaking up. Evidently there is wind coming, and the
sea ice which has recently formed will go out again like the rest. It
is getting rather a serious question as to whether there will be any
sea ice for us to get down the coast on. I only hope that to the South
of the Drygalski ice tongue, where the south-easterlies are the
prevailing winds, we shall find the ice has held. Otherwise it will
mean that we shall have to go over the plateau, climbing up by Mount
Larsen, and coming down the Ferrar Glacier, and if so we cannot start
until November, and the food will be a problem.

"We made a terrible discovery in a hoosh tonight: a penguin's flipper.
Abbott and I prepared the hoosh. I can remember using a flipper to
clean the pot with, and in the dark Abbott cannot have seen it when he
filled the pot. However, I assured every one it was a fairly clean
flipper, and certainly the hoosh was a good one."

In this diary are some remarkable entries. Attempts were made to vary the
flavour of the "Hooshes"--one entry is very queer reading: it related how
after trying one or two other expedients Levick used a mustard plaster in
the pemmican and seal stew. The unanimous decision was that it must have
been a linseed poultice, for mustard could not be tasted at all, yet the
flavour of linseed was most distinct.

Campbell says that Midwinter Day gave them seasonable weather, pitch
dark, with wind and a smothering drift outside. The men awoke early and
were so eager and impatient for their full ration on this special
occasion that they could not remain in their sleeping-bags, but turned
out to cook a "full hoosh breakfast" for the first time for many
weeks--that evening they repeated the hoosh and augmented it by cocoa
with sugar in it, then four citric acid and two ginger tabloids. The day
concluded with a smoke and a sing-song, a little tobacco having been put
by for the event.

Soon after Midwinter Day a heavy snowstorm blocked the igloo entrance
completely; in consequence the air became so bad that the primus stove
went out and the lights would not burn. The inmates had to dig their way
out to avoid being suffocated. This impoverishment of air had already
happened through the same cause on other occasio