Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-07-06
All Provisions for the Jour
ney Across South Polar
Continent Are to Be
Pack ed in Sausage
Skins
MENU NOT AN
ENTICING ONE
Rations Will Be Thirty-six
Ounces Per Day Com
pared With Average of
Three Pounds Eaten Daily
by Ordinary Person
ASSOCIATED PRESS pIsPATcH1


LONDON, July 5.-All the provis-
ions for Sir Ernest Shackleton's trip
across the South Polar Continent are
to be packed in sausage skins. They
are the most nutritious part Of the
composition" says Sir Ernest. I'VE
tried them in Norway but did not sue
ceed. eW shall no doubt do better at
the South Pole when We are more hun
gry."
The menu prepared for the party is
not an enticing one 1t has been decid-
ed upon, however, under the advice of
the Royal Army Medical College and
is made up of food that is easy to
transport and at the same time viii
keep the body warm and strong. The
Iations will be SO ounces day, COM
pared with the average three pounds
day eaten by the ordinary person. In
the latter there is a lot of waste which
has been eliminated from the rations
of the explorers.
There will be daylight during the
whole five months the party is on the
march, so the ordinary day of twenty
four hours will be disregarded, and
new day of nineteen established. Sup
posing the hour for rising on the first
day is seven o'clock, the time table
will work out on thise lines:
IS a. Interpretations for the start
and breakfast. consisting Of three
ounces of lard per man, two ounces
of sugar. one ounce of dried milk,
wheat protein and oats.
S-12 m.-March.
12-1 D. m.-Rest and lunch, consist
ing Of nut food, composed of Brazils.
almonds and beach nuts, mixed with
! oil; and-dried milk, oats.
Is D. m.-March.
ST p. m.-Pitch camp rest. and
take dinner. consisting of the same
food in the same quantity as break
fast.
7 p. m. to 2 a. m.-Sleep.
The same round of nineteen hours
will then be repeated.
Sir Ernest explains that the lard anA
sugar supply heat; the protein builds
up muscles: the nuts are the most
nourishing food in the world, and the
oats, mixed with other rations, afford
the bulk necessary to keep the organs
from becoming atrophied. you may
feel rather sick when you hear of it,
said Sir Ernest, ''its rather a greasy
compound. Indeed, when We tried it in
Norway we thought it a very unpleas-
ant sort of ration, but can assure you
l that scientifically considered, it is the
finest that has ever been devised. |
hope that this time hunger will play
very small part in our troubles"
| AS the party intends to cut right
! across the continent march of 1900
miles, they will have to carry all their
food with them, and cannot like pre-
vious explorers, whose objective was
the pole, depend upon food depots on
the return march. Therefore the great
est attention is being paid to provis-
ions. The organization is perfect so
far as human ingenuity can devise.
! They are allowing fifteen days food
! for billiards. but they can go on much
shorter rations if necessary. To carry
, the food motor sledges with aerial pro-
pellors will be used for the first time.
and in addition there will be one hun
dred Canadian dogs which can carry
| 100 pounds each.
| For protection while sleeping
sleeping hood, something after the
! fashion of an automobile hood, is to be
used This weighs 81 pounds and ac-
comodates six men. whereas the old
tents weighed 80 pounds and accomo-
dated three people.
| The first nine hundred miles of the
| journey will be across land, never be-
fore covered by man, and it is here that
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