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[and tolerance] or rather tolerance of food [will] is so much impaired
that they cannot bear raw meat - and the cooked
is much less prompt and efficient in its
action. My mode of serving out our
supply is a sauce of thinly sliced frozen
Walrus heart with vinegar or lime juice
before breakfast - at breakfast blood gravy
with wheaten bread - at dinner slightly stewed
or fried steaks in as great quantity as their
appetites call for. At tea proper they
get no more animal food but at 8.p.m. a
renewed allowance is served out of raw
slices and vinegar. The sum total of
meat thus consumed does not exceed seven
pounds per diem (for a few convalescents [have]
I cook a supper meal about 11 p.m.) [cooked by
me] The worst cases are sustained by
broth.

[?][?] 13

I walked out with Hans and Myosu
to give them God Speed and good fortune
on their way. Myosu had made me
dress his frosted feet with rabbit fur,
swaddled with alternate folds of flannel
and warm skins. The little devil had
not been so comfortable since his accident.
The dogs were only four in number for
“Young Whitey” was used up at [Eopah?] - yet
with a light lead Myosu managed to get
a fair share of riding. Hans with the
consiquential demeanour of “big Ingin”
walked ahead.

I [gave them] ordered extreme caution
as to their proceedings. They stretch over
to the bergy ground of dismal associations.
hoping to find ice cracks in the level
channel way where I so nearly lost my
life - Here they will seek bears & Walrus
working down to the South. They sleep to night