MAWSON'S EXPEDITION.
FOOD FOR ANTARCTIC. VALUE OF SEAL FLESH. LONDON. April 16. Sir Douglas Mawsori. the Antarctic explorer, is busily completing the Discovery's equipment and rationing. He has ordered several tons ot tinned foods, including half a ton each of sausages, steak and kidney puddings, and vegetables, and a quantity of tinned fruit, Christmas puddings, spices, and eight varieties of pickles. "We shall be existing for two years mainly on the flesh of seals and penguins, and we shall need the pickles to make (hem palatable," lie says. "Nevertheless, seal flesh is most nourishing, and contains five times tho vitamines of any other flesh in the world, because the Antarctic teal lives for six months o: the year in darkness and has to store up its energy for that purpose."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20239, 26 April 1929, Page 13
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