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Note 19. />. 215. — These hints on Polar Surveying fell on willing ears. 

 Members of the afterguard who were not mathematically trained plunged 

 into the very practical study of how to work out observations. Writing 

 home on October 26, 191 1, Scott remarks: 



* " Cherry " has just come to me with a very anxious face to say that 

 I must not count on his navigating powers. For the moment I didn't know 

 what he was driving at, but then I remembered that some months ago I said 

 that it would be a good thing for all the officers going South to have some 

 knowledge of navigation so that in emergency they would know how to 

 steer a sledge home. It appears that " Cherry " thereupon commenced a 



