, chocolate 10 ort, sugar 7.5 ort.

_Dinner_: salt meat 1 lb., maccaroni 15 ort (or brown beans 10 cubic
inches or green peas 1 portion), fruit soup 1 portion, brandy or rum
2 cubic inches.

_Supper_ same as No. 2.

No. 5. SATURDAY.

_Breakfast_ same as No. 4.

_Dinner_: preserved beeksteak or stewed beef 1 portion, preserved or
fresh, potatoes 12 ort, preserved leeks 1 portion, fruit soup 1
portion, brandy or rum 2 cubic inches.

_Supper_ same as No. 2.

Every man besides had served out to him daily 1-1/4 lb. dried bread
or flour (2/3 wheat and 1/3 rye), 3 ort tobacco and 2 cubic inches
vinegar; and weekly 1 lb. wheat-flour, 30 ort butter, 21 ort salt, 7
ort mustard, 3 ort pepper, and two cubic inches vinegar.

Besides what is included in the above list, "multegroet" (preserved
cloudberries), mixed with rum, was served out twice a week from the
15th February to the 1st April. I would willingly have had a larger
quantity of this, according to northern experience, excellent
antidote to scurvy, but as the cloudberry harvest completely failed
in 1877, I could not, at any price, procure for the Expedition the
quantity that was required. There was purchased in Finland instead,
a large quantity of cranberry-juice, which was regularly served out
to the crew and much liked by them. We carried with us besides a
pair of living swine, which were slaughtered for the Christmas
festivities.[254] All the men at that time had an opportunity of
eating fresh pork twice a week, an invaluable interruption to the
monotonous preserved provisions, which in its proportion conduced,
during this festival, to which we inhabitants of the North are
attached by so many memories, to enliven and cheer us.

The produce of hunting was confined during the course of the winter
to some ptarmigan and hares, and thus did not yield any contribution
worth mentioning to the provisioning of the vessel. On the other
hand, I was able by barter with the natives to procure fish in
considerable abundance, so that at certain seasons the quantity was
sufficient to allow of fresh fish being served out once a week. The
kind of fish which was principally obtained during the winter, a
sort of cod with greyish-green vertebrae, could however at first
only be served in the gun-room, because the crew, on account of the
colour of its bones, for a long time had an invincible dislike to
it.

On many of the ground-ices in the neighbourhood of the vessel there
were