442 We wanted some boiled seal meat for dinner to-day but the cook said that he could not prepare any, because he had only one frost and needed that for the soup. This is an item of the inexusa- bly poor outfit of this ship which brings to mind an incident stark of our cross- ing of Melville Bay. Becoming exasper- ated over the dirty condition of the tea pot, I asked Charlie one day after din- er why he didn't wash it. He replied that he couldn't, without marring it leak. It transpired then that the enamel pot had a hole in it at the base of the spout and that the hole had been stopped with a wad of hard soap. Some weeks later the tea pot went all to the bad, and since then we have had tea at dinner made in the coffee pot of the morning. Neither beverage is improved by such use of the pot.