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below again, and said that now they were coming on 

 board. So then I turned out and received them. They 

 were Lieutenant Campbell, the leader of Captain Scott's 

 second shore party, and Lieutenant Pennell, the com- 

 mander of the Terra Nova. They naturally asked a 

 number of questions, and evidently had some difficulty 

 in believing that it was actually the Fram that was 

 lying here. We had at first been taken for a whaler. 

 They offered to take our mail to New Zealand; but we 

 had no mail ready, and had to decline the offer with 

 thanks. Later in the day a number of the Terra 

 Novas officers went to breakfast at Framheim, and 

 the Chief, Prestrud and I lunched with them. At 

 about two in the afternoon the Terra Nova sailed 

 again. 



On Friday, February 16, a number of the shore party 

 started on the first trip to lay down depots. We cleared 

 up, filled our water-tanks with snow, and made the ship 

 ready for sea. We had finished this by the evening of 

 the l-lth. 



HI. 



From the Bay of Whales to Buenos Aires. 



The sea party consisted of the following ten men: 

 Thorvald Nilsen, L. Hansen, H. Kristensen and J. 

 Nodtvedt; H. F. Gjertsen, A Beck, M. Ronne, 



