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SCOTT’S LAST EXPEDITION 
Abbott—The Igloo Coated with Snow—Diet and Disease— 
‘Igloo Back’—Penguin Meat Better than Seal—A Tiring Start 
—lIllness and a Gale—A Narrow Escape—Mount Erebus 
in Sight—Among Pressure Ridges—The Nordenskidld Ice 
Tongue—Seals Found—Browning’s Condition—Renewed 
Strength and Health—News at Butter Point—Browning’s 
Recovery—Arrive at Cape Evans—At Cape Evans... . 
THE WESTERN JOURNEYS 
CHAPTER. I 
KOETTLITZ, FERRAR, AND TAYLOR GLACIERS 
Comrades and Comradeship—lInstructions—Equipment—Glass- 
Roof Ice—A Snowless Valley—Alcove Camp—‘ Lake Chad’ 
and ‘Round Valley’—‘A Few Feathers in the Bed’— Sledge 
Literature—In Crevasses—‘ Browning the Boots’—The Sound 
of the Sea Ice—‘Armadillo Camp’—‘Park Lane Camp’— 
Seals on the Koettlitz Glacier—Compass Readings—An 
Eventful Lunch—In the Pinnacle Ice—At the Place of 
the Pony, Disaster--Antaretic Changes: 0/5042) 2.) 2) baton 
CHAPTER II 
THE GEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO GRANITE HARBOUR 
Instructions—Improvement in Gear—A March Through a Snow- 
storm—Head Gear—The Old Glacier Tongue—On Salty 
Snow—Sledge Routine—Rendezvous Bluff—Daily Menu— 
“Too Tired to Think’—Insects Discovered—‘Granite House’ 
—Gondola Mountain—Reading in a Blizzard—A Dangerous 
Passage—Skuas’ Eggs—Amateur Doctoring—Feast Days— 
The ‘Barrier Shudder’—Gondola Ridge—Ascent of Gondola 
Nunatak—A Photographic Epitome—Antarctic Gardening 
—Crossing a Shear Crack—Sad History of the Skuas—Rec- 
reations—Gran’s Birthday—The Ship Disappears—A Com- 
pulsory March—A Saving Depot Left—Perilous Marching 
—Eye Treatment—At Butter Point—Met by the Ship 
SPRING DEPOT JOURNEY 
The New Double Tent—The Cairn Buried in Snow—Marching 
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