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of cut-up meat, and we shall require eight. The allowance will be two mugs per day for each man, and each bag contains forty-two mugs, or one week's meat for each tent.

A thin scum of ice formed over the bay, but even if the sea ice did form now I should not trust it for sledging.

September 12.—Overcast and low drift. I am repairing Levick's sleeping-bag and putting a new flap on my own; a slow job when one has to work by the light of a blubber lamp.

September 13.—Browning and Dickason saw a seal with a fish in its mouth, but he would not come up on the ice. These two are still very bad with diarrhœa, and we are giving them fresh-water hoosh to see if that does any good.

September 14.—Browning was very bad in the night. I wish we had a change of diet to give him. He has been ill, off and on, for five months now and has been very cheerful through it all. Priestley and Dickason are also down with enteritis but are not so bad. We have some Oxo and I shall try Browning on this before sledging. The rest of us are feeling fairly fit. At the beginning of this month we started Swedish exercises, and will keep it up until we start sledging, as our leg muscles have shrunk to nothing. As the hut is not nearly 6 feet high we are obliged to do these exercises and all our other work without standing upright, and this has given rise to what we called the 'Igloo Back,' which is caused by the stretching of the ligaments round the spine and is very painful.

September 17—A fine morning. Priestley and Abbott went over to the moraine depôt to dig for the specimens, while Dickason and I dug out the sledges, which had been