16 SCOTT'S "LAST (EXPEDITION [Jury 
Our daily routine was, for breakfast, to have first tea, then 
pemmican and biscuit; for lunch, tea and biscuit (and butter 
for Cherry and myself); for supper, hot water and pemmican 
and biscuit. 
We none of us missed sugar or cocoa, or any of the other 
foods we have been used to on sledge journeys, and we all found 
we were amply satisfied on this diet. Cocoa would have been 
pleasanter at night than plain hot water, but the hot water with 
biscuit soaked in it was very good. 
We still carry out the brush routine every time we break 
camp, to clear away all the rime formed on the inner tent 
lining. The outer tent is extraordinarily free from frost—and 
remained so to the day we returned to Cape Evans. ‘The lower 
skirts of the inner tent, however, are solid with ice. 
Towards evening the wind abated considerably, and parts 
of Mt. Terror came into view, but during the night the wind 
came on again with much snow and violent gusts, increasing at 
times to force 10. We were unable to march. The min. temp. 
for the night was — 7:6°. 
Wednesday, July 12, 1911.—We were compelled to remain 
in our bags again all day. Wind from S.W., force 10, and 
squally up to force 9 all the afternoon, with much drift. Temp. 
up to + 2-9° again in the morning. Towards night there were 
lulls, and at 3 A.M. the wind ceased. Bowers turned his bag 
from hair outside to hair inside, his first change since starting. 
Thursday, July 13, 1911.—After digging out our sledges and 
tent, which were pretty deeply buried in drift, we had a really 
good day’s march, making 7% miles in 7% hours with both 
sledges. [Seems a marvellous run.] During our march, in our 
effort to avoid the pressure ridges on our right, we got imper- 
ceptibly somehow too high up on to the slopes of Terror and 
were held up by a very wide crevasse with an unsafe looking 
sunken lid, which we caught sight of in a momentary break of 
moonlight just in time to avoid it. We turned down its side 
and found it was one of a number that marked a low mound 
in the land ice slopes. We made out east again to get once more 
into the safety limit of land ice on the flat, which seemed very 
narrow in the dark. 
We camped about 8 p.m. Min. temp. for last night was 
—22-2° and by the evening the temperature had dropped to 
