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441 



of the cairn, was quite oily from the spontaneous leakage of the tins seven 

 feet above it on the top of the cairn. 



The tins at the depots awaiting the Southern Party had of course been 

 opened and the due amount to be taken measured out by the supporting 

 parties on their way back. However carefully re-stoppered, they were still 

 liable to the unexpected evaporation and leakage already described. Hence, 

 without any manner of doubt, the shortage which struck the Southern 

 Party so hard. 



Note 27, />. 409. — The Fatal Blizzard. Mr. Frank Wild, who led 

 one wing of Dr. Mawson's Expedition on the northern coast of the Ant- 

 arctic continent, Queen Mary's Land, many miles to the west of the Ross 

 Sea, writes that ' from March 21 for a period of nine days we were kept in 

 camp by the same blizzard which proved fatal to Scott and his gallant com- 

 panions ' {Times, June 2, 1913). Blizzards, however, are so local that 

 even when, as in this case, two are nearly contemporaneous, it is not safe 

 to conclude that they are part of the same current of air. 



TABLE OF DISTANCES showing the length of the Outward and Return Marches 

 on the Barrier from and to One Ton Camp. 



3 miles to each sub-division 



Nov. 



15, 16 



Nov. 17 



Nov. 18 



Nov. 19 



Nov. 20 



Camp 



No. 



13 



14 



IS 



16 



-One Ton Camp- 



15 



IS 



IS 



IS 



IS 

 Mt. Hooper Depot - 



-The Last Camp- 



. Lunch. 21 to Depot 



.Lunch, 25^ to Dep6t 



-47 to Depot- 



Si 



6.9 



Camp 

 No. 



R. 60 



R.S9 



R. 58 



Blizz'd 

 R-57 



R.S6 



R-SS 

 R.S4 



R-53 



R-S2 



Date 



Mar. 19 

 Mar. 18 

 Mar. 17 



Mar. 15 

 Mar. 14 

 Mar. 13 

 Mar. 12 



Mar. II 



Mar. 9-10 



