94 SCOTT’S LAST EXPEDITION [ApRit 
satisfactory. We had some little tins, which had contained 
‘Oxo.’ These, filled with melted blubber and a strand of rope 
for a wick, gave quite a good light. A tin bridge was pierced 
to hold the wick and laid across the top of the Oxo tin. We 
luckily had one or two books—‘ David Copperfield,’ ‘ The Life 
of R. L. Stevenson,’ and ‘ Simon the Jester’ being the favour- 
ites—and after hoosh Levick used to read a chapter of one of 
them. Saturday evenings, we each had a stick of chocolate, and 
usually had a concert, and Sunday evening at supper twelve 
lumps of sugar were served out and we had church, which con- 
sisted of my reading a chapter of the Bible, followed by hymns. 
We had no hymn-book, but Priestley remembered several hymns, 
while Abbott, Browning, and Dickason had all been, at some 
time or other, in a choir, and were responsible for one or two 
of the better known psalms. When our library was exhausted 
we started lectures, Levick’s on anatomy being especially 
interesting. 
April 12.—A calm day. Priestley and I went over to the 
main depot to get some oil we had left there on the sledges, and 
in the afternoon I went into the cove south of us to look for 
seals. I saw one lying on some new ice, but I could not reach 
him. I found an old penguin egg. It was four months old if it 
had been laid this year, so I brought it back on the chance of 
its having been frozen all the time, but no such luck. It was 
hopelessly bad. 
April 13—1'7.—Strong westerly wind, bitterly cold. 
April 20.—The same wind continues, but slightly warmer. 
A large piece had calved off the Drygalski ice tongue. I think 
this northern face must be altering very fast, as its appearance 
does not tally with the last survey. 
A pril 23.—Another calm day. Browning and Dickason saw 
two seals on floes, but were unable to reach them. ‘The sea is 
still open. On calm days a thin film of ice forms, but disappears 
as soon as the wind gets up. The current also plays an important 
part, I am sure, as in Arrival Bay, where there is no current, the 
ice has formed, and is several feet thick, although the winds are 
just as strong. 
April 24, 25, 26.—Blowing a hard blizzard. On the 25th 
Dickason dropped ‘ Y’ deck watch and broke the glass, but 
‘R’ and ‘C’ are going strong, and with sticking-plaster and 
