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as thick as could be with snow. This continued all day, and we lay wet and warm in our bags, listening to the periodic movements of the ice pressure, apparently tidal to some extent, beneath and about us.

Tuesday, July 11, 1911.—The temp. at 10 a.m. went up to +7·8° ['a rise of over 80°' from the record minimum], and at 8 p.m. was still +6·8°, with a minimum for the day of +3·2°. The wind came from S.W., force 5 to 9, and very squally. This continued all day with a very considerable snowfall which packed our tent in 1½ to 2 feet all round, as well as all our sledge gear. Cherry is still in his down bag inside the reindeer with fur outside. Bowers still as he started, with fur outside. I turned my bag yesterday from fur inside to fur outside. The rise in temperature and the long lie-in during this blizzard have steamed us and our clothes into a very sodden wet condition, and one wondered what a return to low temperatures would effect.

We have been discussing our respective rations, and they have been somewhat revised as follows:

On July 6 Cherry felt the need for more food, and would have chosen fat, either butter or pemmican, had he not been experimenting on a large biscuit allowance. So he increased his biscuits to twelve a day, and found that it did away to some extent with his desire for more food and fat. But he occasionally had heartburn, and has certainly felt the cold more than Bowers and I have, and has had more frostbite in hands, feet, and face than we have.

I have altogether failed to eat anything approaching