Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-20
The CaD,p on the Ice.

quired to work with all their strength all
day. or rather all night long. We are
now experimenting to some extent with the
ration, and may find it necessary to in
crease IL, except when we can supplement
our stores with bear meat. As yet the men
seem to hold up very well, though the ma
tority or them are more or less hungry all
the time.
We take the position that eating a large
quantity of food is more or less a habit
In our ration of about twenty-five ounces
per day we know there is enough nu;riment
TO Keep hard-working machine in good
order. This has been, scientifically demon
strated. The trouble is to induce the men
to break off the habit of years and feel sat
isfed without the sense of fullness. 1t Is
also difficult to teach them how to increase
the value of their food by eating 1t very
slowly. For instance, We issue every morn
ing three small amebis crackers, weigh
ing an ounce each, to each man. They are
almost a perfect food, containing sixteen
per cent of heterogeneous matter. The writer
In experimenting SubSisted several days to-
gether with no other food than ten of these
crackers, but to obtain their full value II
Is necessary, of course, to eat them very
slowly, merely to nibble at them.
When eaten in this way. a couple of them
are almost as good as an ordinary meal
and those of us who know how to use them
lind the three little crackers of inestimable
value IN keeping up our strength and in
suppressing the desire for large quantities
OF food at the meal hours. They seem I'M
able to learn this valuable lesson, and gulp
their crackers down in a few mouthfuls
So il is with other features OF our daily
ration. We shall go on preaching and COM
nanding however, In hopes finally of in
ducing all the members of the party to use
their food as 1t was intended to be used.
Taking to the Boats.
A little after il o'clock this evening, when
we were within about six miles of Cape
Platen and rad advano ed resrly four miles
Capt. Petersen BIcunted a high piece of
Ice, cast his eye to the northeast and took
on his hat and shouted: "Hurrah, Open
water!' We all clar.bered up beside him.
and a shout of joy leaped from all our
Threats. To the northeast, as far as our vi
sion could extend, was a broad belt of open
water. The strong southerly wind was CIV
ing us the opportunity which We hal been
looking for. The ice had even opened out
from he vicinity Of Martens Island, and
had we but kr own II We cCuId have remain
cd IN camp there, saved ourselves five days
OF the hardest kind Of work and launched
cur boats there well as here But in
arctic work, as I'm many other affairs Of life
one cannot look far ahead, and our policy
has been, and will continue to be- to work
on, through water when we can, over the
ice when we must Natl rally enocgb, the
D1e1 are all tired of the / ard work of drag
SinS the boats and sledges and glad enough
to take to the water. The sailormen wer.
particularly delighted, and all hands set 10
work with redoubled energy.
June AT 1 o'clock this morning orders
were Issued to prepare to so to sea with all
possible speed. First 1t was necessary to
move the camp from the pressed up Ice
which, IL loosened by the drift, might over
turn and-involve US In disaster. Near BY
was large level foe and We transferred
all cur equipment to II. There the boats
were uplcsded and overturned and care
rdlly examined for injuries. We were de-
| lighted to find they had suffered so little
| during the ordeal to which they had been
subjected. The Parry was intact. The
Kane had been bent a little by collisions
Nth the ice, but was tight and whole. The