200 SCOTT S “LAs! EXPEDITION [SEPTEMBER 
thermometer at Hut Point showed — 21° and on camping it was 
— 42°, with a sharp biting breeze coming away from the Barrier. 
Minimum temp. — 45°. 
On the following day we started off in a light easterly wind, 
temperature — 36°5°, and hauled our sledge to Safety Camp, 
which is distant from Cape Evans 22 miles 452 yards (statute). 
We dug out the depot, tallied stores, and then put up a wind 
recorder of Simpson’s. 
It was interesting to see how Safety Camp had drifted up 
during the winter. It took many hours to dig it out, and al- 
though this depot contained, amongst other things, 73 bales of 
fodder, each of 107 Ibs. weight, the snow had completely cov- 
ered it. 
After lunch we took 6 tins of paraffin from here and marched 
8 miles 641 yards between 5.30 and 8.30 P.M. At 9 P.M. the 
thermometer showed 45:2° below zero. 
The temperature fell a good deal during the night and we 
could scarcely sleep. Gran, using an eiderdown bag inside his 
sleeping-bag, was warmer than the other two of us, but later 
on our journey the eiderdown bag was like a board and he had 
very little if any advantage from it. 
On September 11, at 7 A.M., the Pera ure was — 58: 2°, the 
minimum for the mht being — 62: aig 
At 9 A.M. we started off, and marched 5% miles by sledge- 
meter (statute 6 miles 530 yards). 
We built cairns at every night and lunch camp, and small 
‘top-hats’ whenever we had a halt. Corner Camp is very diffi- 
cult to find, as landmarks are so often obscured by cloud and drift 
in this vicinity. One of our objects was to mark the track clearly. 
We stopped for lunch at 2; the land was entirely obscured 
by mist, although the sky was clear overhead. ‘Thermometer 
at — 43°. 
The surface in the forenoon though variable was fairly good; 
we marched another 534 miles by our sledgemeter during the 
afternoon and camped at 8.30, the weather gradually becoming 
worse, wind from W.S.W., with low drift. By the time our 
tent was pitched a fair blizzard was onus. Temperature — 34°5°. 
By 10 P.M. the tent was well drifted up, weather squally, but 
all snug inside. We had with us the new pattern double tent, 
which is a horrible thing, it shortens the space down so, and is 
