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Explanation:
This is all about food and the hardships endured because the people on this exploration were so lacking in a completely balanced diet.
Shackleton is retelling what made the shortage so hard. What did they do about these problems. The point of the passage is to show how difficult their life was and what they had to do to overcome their problems. If that is the intent, then these two sentences might work, but it is hard to separate them from all the rest that could be chosen.
1) In addition there was a little tea, sugar, dried vegetables, and suet.” I sent Hurley and Macklin to Ocean Camp to bring back the food that we had had to leave there. They returned with quite a good load, including 130 lbs. of dry milk, about 50 lbs. each of dog pemmican and jam, and a few tins of potted meats.
2) We had left, other than reserve sledging rations, about 110 lbs. of pemmican, including the dog pemmican, and 300 lbs. of flour. “In addition there was a little tea, sugar, dried vegetables, and suet
Note
You might need to know what pemmican is Here is the definition
pemmican: paste of dried and pounded meat mixed with melted fat and other ingredients, originally made by North American Indians and later adapted by Arctic explorers.
Another possible choice is this sentence.<em> We were, of course, very short of the farinaceous element in our diet. </em>Farinaceous means starch.
