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so that great difficulty was experienced in making Cape Evans; 
but finally she anchored close in at 2 P.M. on the 25th, all the fast 
ice having gone out since she was last here. At 11 P.M. the gale 
lulled for a few minutes and a boat was sent ashore. 
Feb. 25, Simpson at once came off with the news that Lieu- 
aaa Cape tenant Evans was at Hut Point and seriously ill, and 
should be taken off as soon as possible. 
The gale came on again at once, and it was not till the first 
watch on the 28th that the ship could secure alongside the fast 
ice about %4 mile north of Hut Point and Atkinson 
Feb. 28. Of and his party were able to bring Evans on board. 
Castle Rock. : 
The opportunity was taken to land two sledge loads 
of stores that would be useful at Discovery hut. 
The ship at once proceeded to Cape Evans, and by every- 
one on shore and aboard lending a willing hand the remainder 
of the stores (about nineteen tons) was landed in the boats be- 
tween 2 A.M. and 7.30 A.M., in a perfect calm and beautiful 
weather. 
As soon as the last boat came off, the ship left for Terra 
Nova Bay again. It was essential that Lieutenant Evans should 
Ay have a doctor with him for a few days more and so 
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1912,77°7' Atkinson had to go in her, though it was quite likely 
S., 166° 25’ that she might not be able to re-enter the Sound. 
a Conditions off Terra Nova Bay had not improved, 
and the ship ran up and down outside the heavier pack trying 
it in places wherever a sign of weakness showed; but with always 
the same result, that after entering two or three miles 
ae cake through pack which gradually grew heavier she would 
Nova Bay. be brought up. Once, indeed, she managed to work 
through to a position north-east seven miles from the 
end of the Drygalski Barrier, but even here she was.35 miles 
from her destination, and this was the last flicker of reasonable 
hope. 
The following extract is from the ship’s log: 
‘ All day on outskirts of ice filling Terra Nova Bay and ex- 
tending fifteen to twenty miles eastward from the extremity of 
the Drygalski Barrier. On the outskirts thin pancake and small, 
but very heavy, bay ice floes; the heavy floes becoming more nu- 
merous and the new ice heavier the farther the pack is entered, 
till heavy pack with interspaces all filled with snow slush forms 
