IIO SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [February 



suddenness their rage flares out instantaneously if they get mixed 

 up on the march a quiet, peaceable team which has been lazily 

 stretching itself with wagging tails one moment will become a 

 set of raging, tearing, fighting devils the next. It is such stern 

 facts that resign one to the sacrifice of animal life in the effort 

 to advance such human projects as this. 



The Corner Camp. [Bearings: Obs. Hill < Bluff 86; 

 Obs. Hill < Knoll 80^ ; Mt. Terror N. 4 W.; Obs. Hill 

 N. 69 W.] 



Saturday, February 4, 8 A.M., 191 1. Camp 6. A satisfac- 

 tory night march covering 10 miles and some hundreds of yards. 



Roused party at 10, when it was blowing quite hard from 

 the S.E., with temperature below zero. It looked as though 

 we should have a pretty cold start, but by the end of breakfast 

 the wind had dropped and the sun shone forth. 



Started on a bad surface ponies plunging a good deal for 

 2 miles or so, Bowers' ' Uncle Bill ' walking steadily on his snow- 

 shoes. After this the surface improved and the marching be- 

 came steadier. We camped for lunch after 5 miles. Going 

 still better in the afternoon, except that we crossed several cre- 

 vasses. Oates' pony dropped his legs into two of these and 

 sank into one oddly the other ponies escaped and we were 

 the last. Some 2 miles from our present position the cracks 

 appeared to cease, and in the last march we have got on to 

 quite a hard surface on which the ponies drag their loads with 

 great ease. This part seems to be swept by the winds which 

 so continually sweep round Cape Crozier, and therefore it is 

 doubtful if it extends far to the south, but for the present the 

 going should be good. Had bright moonshine for the march, 

 but now the sky has clouded and it looks threatening to the 

 south. I think we may have a blizzard, though the wind is 

 northerly at present. 



The ponies are in very good form; 'James Pigg ' remark- 

 ably recovered from his lameness. 



8 p.m. It is blowing a blizzard wind moderate tempera- 

 ture mild. 



Impressions 



The deep, dreamless sleep that follows the long march and 

 the satisfying supper. 



