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British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904
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British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904
Messrs. CADBURY (manufacturers). Bar of chocolate, [Bournville?: circa 1901], approximately rectangular, with moulded 'Cadbury' mark in calligraphic script on upper surface, 3.5 x 9.5 x 1cm., preserved within a later H.L. Savory & Co. cigarette tin.
PROVENANCE:
Later ink note 'THIS BAR OF CHOCOLATE WAS/TAKEN FROM THE BOAT "DISCOVERY"/ON ITS RETURN FROM CAPT: SCOTTS/EXPEDITION TO ATTEMPT TO/REACH THE SOUTH POLE/IN 1905'
Cadbury's were one of three firms singled out by Scott for special mention in his account of the expedition. 'On the whole the firms with which we dealt treated us with great liberality, and supplied us with excellent goods... I take the opportunity of most gratefully acknowledging three cases in which goods were supplied as an absolute free gift, and in which the donors took exceptional care that the packing should be in exact accordance with our requirements. These firms were Messrs. Colman, Limited... Messrs. Cadbury, who gave 3,500 lbs. of excellent cocoa and chocolate - all that we required of these articles in fact... [and] Messrs, Bird & Sons' (R.F. Scott, The Voyage of the 'Discovery', London, 1937, pp.30-31). Chocolate was one of the staples of the diet worked out for sledging parties: Scott gives a break down of the 33.3 oz. of food he allowed himself during the second season of sledging, starting in September 1902: in addition to 12 oz. of biscuit, the daily requirement included 7.6 oz. of pemmican, 3.8 oz. of sugar and 1.1 oz. of chocolate.
Messrs. CADBURY (manufacturers). Bar of chocolate, [Bournville?: circa 1901], approximately rectangular, with moulded 'Cadbury' mark in calligraphic script on upper surface, 3.5 x 9.5 x 1cm., preserved within a later H.L. Savory & Co. cigarette tin.
PROVENANCE:
Later ink note 'THIS BAR OF CHOCOLATE WAS/TAKEN FROM THE BOAT "DISCOVERY"/ON ITS RETURN FROM CAPT: SCOTTS/EXPEDITION TO ATTEMPT TO/REACH THE SOUTH POLE/IN 1905'
Cadbury's were one of three firms singled out by Scott for special mention in his account of the expedition. 'On the whole the firms with which we dealt treated us with great liberality, and supplied us with excellent goods... I take the opportunity of most gratefully acknowledging three cases in which goods were supplied as an absolute free gift, and in which the donors took exceptional care that the packing should be in exact accordance with our requirements. These firms were Messrs. Colman, Limited... Messrs. Cadbury, who gave 3,500 lbs. of excellent cocoa and chocolate - all that we required of these articles in fact... [and] Messrs, Bird & Sons' (R.F. Scott, The Voyage of the 'Discovery', London, 1937, pp.30-31). Chocolate was one of the staples of the diet worked out for sledging parties: Scott gives a break down of the 33.3 oz. of food he allowed himself during the second season of sledging, starting in September 1902: in addition to 12 oz. of biscuit, the daily requirement included 7.6 oz. of pemmican, 3.8 oz. of sugar and 1.1 oz. of chocolate.
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