66 SCOTT’S LAST EXPEDITION [May 
Dickason has proved himself a most excellent cook and 
baker, while the ‘ galley’ is a model of neatness. 
The following was our daily routine during the winter: 
At 7 A.M. we turned out, one hand going down to the ice 
foot to get ice for cooking purposes. A number of empty 
cases were kept full of ice in the ‘lean to’ outside the hut for 
use during blizzards when we could not get down to the ice 
foot. Breakfast was at 8 A.M., and consisted of porridge, seal 
steak or bacon, and tea. After breakfast we would turn to at 
our various jobs and worked till 1 P.M., when we had a cold 
lunch, bread and cheese and sometimes sardines, then work again 
until 4 P.M., when we had tea. After tea we cleared up decks, 
and then the rest of the day everyone had to himself. 
Dinner was at 7 P.M., and was usually seal or penguin, pud- 
ding, and dessert. After dinner hardly a night passed without 
a gramophone concert. 
Saturday morning was devoted to a good soap and water 
scrub of the whole hut, everyone piling their belongings on 
their beds, Saturday afternoon being ‘made and mend.’ 
Sunday breakfast was at 9 A.M. to give the cook a lie in, and 
every week church was held at 10.30 A.M. . 
In fine weather Sunday was a great day for a long walk, 
either over the sea ice or up Cape Adare. 
During the week everyone had a washing day, when he 
had a bath and washed his clothes, clothes lines being rigged 
across the hut. 
Of the two huts left by Sir George Newnes’ expedition in 
1899, one hut was standing in fairly good condition, the other 
was roofless. The former we repaired, and it made a very good 
workshop, while the latter, after clearing out and roofing with 
a tarpaulin, we turned into a store house. Taking it all round 
we were a very happy and contented little community, but as 
a wintering station Cape Adare is not good, being cut off from 
the mainland until June, when the sea ice can be trusted not 
to go out in a blizzard. 
The sea ice has been forming in Robertson Bay for the last 
week, and now we are able to walk several miles to the south- 
ward. To the northward of our beach is a lot of open water, 
owing to the strong tidal streams off Cape Adare. 
On May 5 began our longest and hardest blow, lasting with 
