ANTARCTIC DIET
Exploration party’s trials trJ. vba * e steaks are quite good—like beef - Seal meat isn’t ’pad, alth it makes better food for dogs B, ? mon. School-gull is edible if ♦I,. in vinegar for 24 hours. But bett I6SS sa * d a bout penguin meat the VaL 1 ?* 1 are the reactions of Willard tiicT * r Veer and Joseph Rucker, Paraj, Unt cameramen who accompanied Byrd on his expedition frpcv? 6 out h Pole. “Fresh meat or *h vegetables are absolutely necesnifT. to ward off scurvy, the scourge kitJv. dreaded by polar explorers," tahr rex P Planed.i ned. “As all the vegehvJes. We took with us had been deon * e ? to save weight, we depended ijj se rres b meat as an antidote to the
th fP Uo to the fact that penguins are Ui_° nly living things which remain . w the Arftarctic circle during the f op quite often had to use them ' eati trestl meat. They made terrible th ft ?S but we have them to thank .for In that we returned to civilisation a good health.’*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1040, 2 August 1930, Page 15
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179ANTARCTIC DIET Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1040, 2 August 1930, Page 15
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