202 SCOTS *LAST “EXPEDITION [SEPTEMBER 
and sacks of oats on end on the top of the cairn we built. The 
complete tally of stores is: 
Sledsing biscuits...’ 9 cases Cocoa . .| ., J .02 0G 
Biter) aisle.) s > t4 bags” Oil .'.. . eee 
Uy0 8 Ue ao Oats... '5)2 Wee ee 
MEN ee ea en ts 2tins' | Sugar’: i. ee 
Pinidertc (ot... 4 bale Chocolate) 242 %a eee 
Remmican’ ih. 6bags Raisins 4.270). 2 eee 
ieee ys) s) | (O.. Treacle 3.) 4.2 2 
The cairn is now like this: 
We left at 5 P.M. and started to march to Hut Point—non- 
stop run—as I wished to get my gear nicely dried at C. Evans 
before going out with Meares on the 20th. We had no wish to 
remain at Corner Camp, as all the time we were digging it was 
drifting a little and blowing about 5, temperature — 32°—about 
all we could ‘stick.’ After striking camp we marched till 10.30 
P.M., doing 9:5 miles by sledgemeter. When 4 miles from Corner 
Camp the wind dropped to a calm. At 10.30 had pemmican and 
tea, then at midnight started off, and steering by stars kept on 
a W.N.W. course till about 5 a.m. (September 14), when we 
had a light breakfast of tea and biscuit. Off again before 6, and 
continued marching until we came to the edge of the Barrier 
about 12.45. We did not stop at Safety Camp, but marched 
straight to Hut Point, arriving at 3 p.m. At the hut we had a 
meal of tea and chapatties which Forde made. We ate steadily 
till about 5.30, and then discussed marching to C. Evans. Had 
we started we might have got in by 3 A.M., but not before; but 
we had marched all through one night, and besides digging out 
Corner Camp we had marched 30 miles 40 yds. by sledgemeter, 
