1 6 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 



Our daily routine was, for breakfast, to have first tea, then 

 pemmican and biscuit; for lunch, tea and biscuit (and butter 

 for Cherry and myself) ; for supper, hot water and pemmican 

 and biscuit. 



We none of us missed sugar or cocoa, or any of the other 

 foods we have been used to on sledge journeys, and we all found 

 we were amply satisfied on this diet. Cocoa would have been 

 pleasanter at night than plain hot water, but the hot water with 

 biscuit soaked in it was very good. 



We still carry out the brush routine every time we break 

 camp, to clear away all the rime formed on the inner tent 

 lining. The outer tent is extraordinarily free from frost and 

 remained so to the day we returned to Cape Evans. The lower 

 skirts of the inner tent, however, are solid with ice. 



Towards evening the wind abated considerably, and parts 

 of Mt. Terror came into view, but during the night the wind 

 came on again with much snow and violent gusts, increasing at 

 times to force 10. We were unable to march. The min. temp, 

 for the night was 7-6. 



Wednesday, July 12, 1911. We were compelled to remain 

 in our bags again all day. Wind from S.W., force 10, and 

 squally up to force 9 all the afternoon, with much drift. Temp, 

 up to + 2-9 again in the morning. Towards night there were 

 lulls, and at 3 A.M. the wind ceased. Bowers turned his bag 

 from hair outside to hair inside, his first change since starting. 



Thursday, July 13, 1911. After digging out our sledges and 

 tent, which were pretty deeply buried in drift, we had a really 

 good day's march, making 7^2 miles in f ] l / 2 hours with both 

 sledges. [Seems a marvellous run.] During our march, in our 

 effort to avoid the pressure ridges on our right, we got imper- 

 ceptibly somehow too high up on to the slopes of Terror and 

 were held up by a very wide crevasse with an unsafe looking 

 sunken lid, which we caught sight of in a momentary break of 

 moonlight just in time to avoid it. We turned down its side 

 and found it was one of a number that marked a low mound 

 in the land ice slopes. We made out east again to get once more 

 into the safety limit of land ice on the flat, which seemed very 

 narrow in the dark. 



We camped about 8 P.M. Min. temp, for last night was 

 22-2 and by the evening the temperature had dropped to 





