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Do you know what we call a notion like that in Roscommon? Hoosh! Blast you! Cranly cried, clapping his hands. Neither my arse nor my elbow! Temple cried out scornfully. And that's what I call limbo. Give us that stick here, Cranly said.
"At 8 p.m. the first sledge was finished and the men went straight on with the second. This was finished by midnight, and, having seen the New Year in, we had a fine pemmican hoosh and went to bed." New Year's Day found us in Latitude 87 degrees 7 minutes S. Height, 9300 feet above Barrier a southerly wind, with temperature 14 degrees below zero.
During that day, while we were walking to the snouted glacier, we had seen three wild duck flying towards the head of the bay from the eastward. I hoped that the presence of these birds indicated tussock-land and not snow-fields and glaciers in the interior, but the hope was not a very bright one. We turned out at 2 a.m. on the Friday morning and had our hoosh ready an hour later.
I can respect that invention of the grey spouse of Satan. Hell is Roman, like the walls of the Romans, strong and ugly. But what is limbo? Put him back into the perambulator, Cranly, O'Keeffe called out. Cranly made a swift step towards Temple, halted, stamping his foot, crying as if to a fowl: Hoosh! Temple moved away nimbly. Do you know what limbo is? he cried.
As the boards which we use for the purpose are also used for cutting up tobacco, when we still have it, a definite flavour is sometimes imparted to the hoosh, which, if anything, improves it." Their diet was now practically all meat, and not too much of that, and all the diaries bear witness to their craving for carbohydrates, such as flour, oatmeal, etc.
A double 'whack' of everything was poured into the cooking-pot, and in the hoosh that followed a spoon would stand without any support, and the cocoa was also brought to boiling-point. 'I am writing, Scott says, 'over my second pipe. The sun is still circling our small tent in a cloudless sky, the air is warm and quiet.
"Dividing the provisions between the two tents, we soon had hoosh going and such a feed of biscuit, butter; and lard as we had not had for nine months, and we followed this up with sweet, thick cocoa. After this we killed and cut up a seal, as we are getting short of meat and there is every prospect of a blizzard coming on. "Levick and Abbott saw a desperate fight between two bull seals to-day.
Those whose billets were near the stove suffered from the effects of the local thaw caused by its heat, but they were repaid by being able to warm up portions of steak and hooshes left over from previous meals, and even to warm up those of the less fortunate ones, for a consideration. This consisted generally of part of the hoosh or one or two pieces of sugar.
Then we went on again and crawled through that interminable day over the piece of line between Herbesthal and Cologne. Evening came, and we thought of the "hoosh," but when it came to the point no one could look at it, and we threw it out of the window. A horrible yellow scum had settled on the top of it and clung to the sides, so that it spoilt the kettle for making tea and we were so thirsty.
Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority. Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-morrow. We have had a fat Polar hoosh in spite of our chagrin, and feel comfortable inside added a small stick of chocolate and the queer taste of a cigarette brought by Wilson.
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