RESULTS OF CAPTAIN M-CLINTOCK'S EXPERIMENTS WITH SCHEME OF FUEL FOR A PARTY OF ELEVEN PERSONS. Temperature 32° minus. To boil tea or cocoa for breakfast, 13 pints To dissolve snow for diluting rum and filling water-bottles, 10 pints Luncheon water, 8 pints Supper of preserved meats Evening grog and water-bottles (? about ten pints) Amounting to (21 + 29) 50 ounces at Temp. minus 32°, or 40 oz. at zero. Capt. M'Clintock found by actual experiment, that to boil from snow in Temp. minus 40°, required twice as much time that it does from snow near the freezing point, and in a Temp. of + 40°, and from this fact, arrived at the following con clusions: That since the quantity of fuel for 11 persons be 54 oz. in Temp. 40°. Ditto Ditto Ditto 47 20° EQUIPMENTS FOR A TRAVELLING PARTY OF EIGHT MEN (1 OFFICER AND 7 MEN). Constant weights. Description of Articles. Lbs. Remarks, &c. 1 tent, complete with head-ropes, &c. 4 tent poles, pikes reduced, 8 ft. 6 in. 34 22 11 feet long, 7 broad, 7 high; head-rope of horse-hair. The officer carries a second gun. NOTE. The above articles are adapted for a long journey. 9 144 3 Taken instead of the pemican chopper supplied. |