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THE CAIRN BURIED IN SNOW
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flagstaff of Corner Camp. On arriving at the depôt found the whole cairn buried thus:

so dug out all the forenoon and eventually got all stores out and tallied. We left one tin of biscuits here, two bags of treacle, six bags of butter, and six tins of paraffin. We put all biscuit tins and sacks of oats on end on the top of the cairn we built. The complete tally of stores is:

Sledging biscuits .. 9 cases Cocoa .. 6 bags
Butter .. 14 bags Oil .. 11 cans
Cheese .. 6 bags„ Oats .. 3 sacks
Tea .. 2 tins Sugar .. 6 bags
Fodder .. ½ bale Chocolate .. 6 bags„
Pemmican .. 6 bags Raisins .. 6 bags„
Cereals .. 6 bags„ Treacle .. 2 bags„

The cairn is now like this:

We left at 5 p.m. and started to march to Hut Point—non-stop run—as I wished to get my gear

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