Thursday, 23 November 1911

Amundsen

Moments after loading up early in the morning, another gale began. "We just had to make a virtue of a necessity and turn in again," wrote Amundsen. "We all benefit from the rest we have here -- even if it is boring." [1]

"We have now had three splendid dinners out of our good Greenland dogs," Bjaaland noted philosophically, "and I must say that they tasted good, a little tough perhaps, they were not boiled enough. Have enjoyed H. biscuit pudding made with dried milk. Bugger this lying still. Hope we can get off tomorrow." [2]


Notes:

[1] Roald Amundsen, diary, 24 November, 1911, quoted by Roland Huntford in Race for the South Pole : the expedition diaries of Scott and Amundsen (London : Continuum, c2010), p.143.
[2] Olav Bjaaland, diary, 24 November, 1911, quoted by Roland Huntford in Race for the South Pole : the expedition diaries of Scott and Amundsen (London : Continuum, c2010), p.143.