8 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION QULY 



easterly airs and north-easterly airs during the march, at these 

 temperatures, forced us all to adjust our noseguards. 



Note. All the temperatures and weather notes in this report 

 are taken directly from Bowers' record. Bowers also made him- 

 self responsible for the sledgemeter records, and for notes on the 

 condition of the ice on Ross Sea when we were at Cape Crozier. 

 He also kept full notes of the auroras, and did so much generally 

 throughout the journey and with so much persistence notwith- 

 standing the difficulties that beset us, that this report must be 

 considered as much his as mine. He has moreover read it all 

 through and has materially helped me in making it complete. 

 What I think of him and of Cherry-Garrard as companions for 

 a sledge journey of this kind I have already made known to you, 

 sir, in conversation. It would be impossible to say too much 

 about either of them. I think their patience and persistence from 

 beginning to end was what made five weeks of discomfort not 

 only bearable but much more than pleasant. I have added this 

 note since his revision of the report. 



Sunday, July 2, 191 1. Min. temp, for the night was 65-2, 

 and this notwithstanding a breeze of force 3 from the S.S.E. with 

 slight drift. The temp, during the day ranged from 60 to 

 65 with calm, and light airs which again made us adjust nose 

 nips. After their use this day and yesterday, however, they were 

 unnecessary, and some of us never again used them. 



A fog bank formed along the Promontory ridge during the 

 afternoon, but rose, and later dispersed to the westward. We all 

 noticed that our frozen fur mits thawed out on our hands while 

 it lasted. 



Sunday, July 2, 1911 (continued}. We were again relaying 

 to-day by daylight from 1 1 A.M. to 3 P.M., and by moonlight in- 

 stead of candle lamp from 4.30 to 8 P.M. This was the first we 

 had seen of the new moon. As it passed exactly behind the sum- 

 mit of Erebus it gave us an extraordinary picture of an eruption. 



We had a fine aurora in the south low on the horizon as a low 

 curtain and arch, with a very striking orange colour all over. 



We made only 2^2 miles in the day. [A terrible day. I felt 

 absolutely done up at lunch three frostbitten toes on one foot 

 and heel and one toe on the other burning oil is all that keeps 

 us going now better night however. We are getting into the 

 swing of doing everything slowly and in mits. 



I have pricked six or seven blisters on fingers to-night.] 



