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One Ton Depot, coming up five and three-quarters miles to it. 
I decided to give men and animals a half day’s rest here. It was 
a beautiful sunny and bright day but with some wind. Here 
we found the stores which had been left by Demetri and Cherry- 
Garrard. One of the tins of paraffin on top of the cairns had 
leaked and spoilt some of the stores placed at the foot of the 
camp. ‘There was no hole of any kind in this tin. 
Our progress up to this point had been made in one day and 
a half less time than it had taken us on the previous year and 
that was with the mules drawing full loads for the whole of the 
time. There was no doubt that our surface had been infinitely 
better than in the previous season. Everything was favourable 
and the health of men and animals was splendid. 
On the night of the 11th and morning of the 12th, after we 
had marched eleven miles due south of One Ton, we found the 
tent. It was an object partially snowed up and looking like a 
cairn. Before it were the ski sticks and in front of them a bam- 
boo which probably was the mast of the sledge. The tent was 
practically on the line of cairns which we had built in the previous 
season. It was within a quarter of a mile of the remains of the 
cairn, which showed as a small hummock beneath the snow. 
Inside the tent were the bodies of Captain Scott, Doctor Wil- 
son, and Lieutenant Bowers. They had pitched their tent well, 
and it had withstood all the blizzards of an exceptionally hard 
winter. Each man of the expedition recognised the bodies. : 
From Captain Scott’s diary I found his reasons for this disas- 
ter. When the men had been assembled I read to them these 
reasons, the place of death of Petty Officer Evans and the story 
of Captain Oates’ heroic end. 
We recovered all their gear and dug out the sledge with 
their belongings on it. Amongst these were 35 lbs. of very im- 
portant geological specimens which had been collected on the 
moraines of the Beardmore Glacier; at Doctor Wilson’s request 
they had stuck to these up to the very end, even when disaster 
stared them in the face and they knew that the specimens were 
so much weight added to what they had to pull. 
When everything had been gathered up, we covered them 
with the outer tent and read the burial service. From this time 
until well into the next day we started to build a mighty cairn 
above them. This cairn was finished the next morning, and upon 
