72 SCOTT’S LAST EXPEDITION [OcroBER 
the salt-flecked ice. Once over the pressure we packed the 12-ft. 
sledge and secured it on the 10-ft. 
Our total weight including sledges amounts to 1163 lbs. 
The sledging ration we are taking is based on Shackleton’s 
ration adapted for coast sledging. 
We are convoying Levick and Browning as far as Warning 
Glacier, where the former is going to take photographs. 
September 22.—On this journey the surfaces were so bad 
that we only managed to reach Cape Barrow, the western limit 
of Robertson Bay. 
After our return we experienced a spell of bad weather until 
the 22nd, when it cleared, so Levick started off again for Warn- 
ing Glacier to get the photographs he had been unable to take 
before. 
Priestley, Browning, and Dickason went with him, and the 
party took provisions for a week. 
September 27.—Levick and his party returned to-day and 
reported bad weather and blizzards nearly the whole time. They 
managed, however, to get a few photographs. I am arranging 
to start on our western journey October 1. Levick and Browning 
will come as far as Cape Wood to take photographs. 
October 3.—Weather bound until to-day, when, the weather 
clearing in the afternoon, we transported our sledges and gear 
over the pressure ice lying round the beach and left them three 
miles south. 
October 4.—A fine morning, so after a 5.30 breakfast we 
started away with our sleeping-bags on our backs, and picking 
up our sledges made pretty good progress over salt-flecked ice 
with occasional belts of pressure. 
To show the superiority of our iron-runners over salt-flecked 
ice, | may mention that two of us pulled the iron-runner sledge 
weighing 1000 lbs. and kept ahead of Levick’s sledge with only 
200 lbs. and four men in the traces. About 12 miles out we 
came to a lot of pressure, so I took my party consisting of 
Priestley, Abbott, and Dickason and steered for Relay Bay, 
telling Levick and Browning to go their own pace and make 
the best of their way to the cave. 
We camped that night in the middle of Relay Bay and after 
supper pulled the iron-runner sledge and depot to a cave dis- 
covered on the north side of Point Penelope on a former journey, 
