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42 Shackelton’s Biscuit Of ox and luncheon tongue, six hundred pounds; of Wiltshire bacon, seven-tenths of a ton. Seventeen hundred miles they walked, and it was pony meat that saved them. But one biscuit, this one Of thousands, baked by Huntley & Palmers, a special formulation fortified with milk protein, survives—the men Long dead, and the ponies, whose lives flew through Bullet holes easily over the frozen labyrinth of the Fortuna Glacier, all gone to powder. Found a century later in the wrecked Larder of one of Shackleton’s way stations, it remains perfectly nutritious, and sold at a Christie’s auction Is worth a thousand-some sterling. We had seen God in His splendors; we had reached the naked soul of man, He wrote. And: This biscuit, said a Christie’s director, is an object that really catches the imagination. ...

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