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animals haul anything from 12 to 18 cwt. Both dogs and men 

 parties have been a useful addition to the haulage — no party or 

 no single man comes over without a load averaging 300 lbs. per 

 man. The dogs, working five to a team, haul 5 to 6 cwt. and 

 of course they travel much faster than either ponies or men. 



In this way we transported a large quantity of miscellaneous 

 stores; first about 3 tons of coal for present use, then 2^ tons 

 of carbide, all the many stores, chimney and ventilators for the 

 hut, all the biologists' gear — a big pile, the remainder of the 

 physicists' gear and medical stores, and many old cases; in fact 

 a general clear up of everything except the two heavy items of 

 forage and fuel. Later in the day we made a start on the first 

 of these, and got 7 tons ashore before ceasing work. We close 

 with a good day to our credit, marred by an unfortunate incident 

 — one of the dogs, a good puller, was seen to cough after a 

 journey; he was evidently trying to bring something up — two 

 minutes later he was dead. Nobody seems to know the reason, 

 but a post-mortem is being held by Atkinson and I suppose the 

 cause of death will be found. We can't afford to lose animals 

 of any sort. 



All the ponies except three have now brought loads from 

 the ship. Oates thinks these three are too nervous to work over 

 this slippery surface. However, he tried one of the hardest 

 cases to-night, a very fine pony, and got him in successfully with 

 a big load. 



To-morrow we ought to be running some twelve or thirteen 

 of these animals. 



GrifHth Taylor's bolted on three occasions, the first two 

 times more or less due to his own fault, but the third owing 

 to the stupidity of one of the sailors. Nevertheless a third occa- 

 sion couldn't be overlooked by his messmates, who made much 

 merriment of the event. It was still funnier when he brought 

 his final load (an exceptionally heavy one) with a set face and 

 ardent pace, vouchsafing not a word to anyone he passed. 



We have achieved fair organisation to-day. Evans is in 

 charge of the road and periodically goes along searching for 

 bad places and bridging cracks with boards and snow. 



Bowers checks every case as it comes on shore and dashes 

 off to the ship to arrange the precedence of different classes of 

 goods. He proves a perfect treasure; there is not a single case 



