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Heavy bales of sennegrass, and boxes of cooking – gear, were lifted bodily in the air and carried away out of sight.

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
Oil mixed with reindeer hair, bits of meat, sennegrass, and penguin feathers form a conglomeration which cements the stones together.

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
“Before he could land he threw ashore handsful of cigarettes and tobacco; and these the smokers, who for two months had been trying to find solace in such substitutes as seaweed, finely chopped pipe – bowls, seal meat, and sennegrass, grasped greedily.

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
The icy sennegrass round one’s fingers is another punishment that causes much pain.

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

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MaryW commented on the word sennegrass

As we puffed and sweated, each of us gave off just as many gallons of water vapour as any long-distance athlete. Yet the cold air of the Barrier is drier than any desert. It was in our finnesko that this difference first gave us trouble.

Finnesko are Norwegian boots made completely of reindeer fur. The fur goes on the outside, and they are cut big enough so that one can wear three or four pairs of socks inside. There is also sennegrass, a fine dried sedge that insulates and absorbs moisture, to stuff them with. Finnesko were invented, and ours were made, by the Lapps of northern Norway, who herd reindeer for a living. The Lapps know everything there is to know about warm boots. But we differed from the herders: we had no fires on which to dry our finnesko, and at the end of the day they were as damp as pairs of well-exercised spaniels. It was a great relief to peel them off. But removing one's feet allowed the frigid air to rush in, like a witch's curse, turning these soft, pliable, comfortable things to stone.
Richard Farr, Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic 1910-1913 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), ch. 6

December 26, 2015