venesta-wood

Updated: July 27, 2026

We were rather short of crockery, but small pieces of venesta-wood served admirably as plates for seal steaks; stews and liquids of all sorts were served in the aluminium sledging-mugs, of which each man had one. Later on, jelly-tins and biscuit-tin lids were pressed into service.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton - South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition