12-1/2
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Dead weight, lbs. 440
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Such were the weights of the sledge equipment in the case of one of
those intended for a long journey. Nothing, it will be seen, was
forgotten, and there was nothing superfluous; yet, as the 440 lbs. had
to be dragged by six men, there was already 73 lbs. per man, which
would, from its nature, be hardly any lighter at the end of the
journey; and as about 200 lbs. was judged to be as much as a man could
drag, there only remained 172 lbs. per man available for provision and
package.

[Headnote: _SCALE OF PROVISION._]

The daily scale of provision, as ordered by Capt. Austin, during the
journeys, was to be as follows:--

Pemmican 1 lb.
Boiled pork 6 oz.
Biscuit 12 oz.
Rum, concentrated 3/4 gill.
Tobacco 1/2 oz.
Biscuit dust 1 oz.
Tea and sugar 3/4 oz.
Chocolate and sugar (alternate days) 1-3/4 oz.
Lime-juice (for 10 days) 1/2 oz.

The fuel allowed to cook this, for a party of seven men, amounted to
one pint and one gill of spirits of wine, or one pound eight ounces of
tallow.

A little calculation soon showed that about forty days' provision was
as much as any one sledge could take with it, or for an outward journey
of about twenty days; which, at an average distance of ten miles per
diem, would only give an extent of coast-line examined by any one
sledge of two hundred miles.

Before I endeavour to show how, by a system of depots and relays,
greater distances were achieved, the complete load of a long-party
sledge may as well be shown.

lbs.
Total dead weight 440
Pemmican and cases 330
Biscuit and dust, &c. 278
Pork and packages 123
Tea, sugar, chocolate, tobacco, &c., in a case 47
Lime-juice and rum 67
Spirits of wine and tallow 78
Sundries, tins, &c.