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so that great difficulty was experienced in making Cape Evans; 

 but finally she anchored close in at 2 P.M. on the 25th, all the fast 

 ice having gone out since she was last here. At 1 1 P.M. the gale 



lulled for a few minutes and a boat was sent ashore. 

 Feb. 25, Simpson at once came off with the news that Lieu- 

 *Evans *** tenant Evans was at Hut Point and seriously ill, and 



should be taken off as soon as possible. 



The gale came on again at once, and it was not till the first 

 watch on the 28th that the ship could secure alongside the fast 



ice about y 2 mile north of Hut Point and Atkinson 

 Feb. 28. Off an( j j-jjg p ar (y were able to bring Evans on board. 



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Ine opportunity was taken to land two sledge loads 

 of stores that would be useful at Discovery hut. 



The ship at once proceeded to Cape Evans, and by every- 

 one on shore and aboard lending a willing hand the remainder 

 of the stores (about nineteen tons) was landed in the boats be- 

 tween 2 A.M. and 7.30 A.M., in a perfect calm and beautiful 

 weather. 



As soon as the last boat came off, the ship left for Terra 

 Nova Bay again. It was essential that Lieutenant Evans should 

 r , have a doctor with him for a few days more and so 



Feb. 29, . J 



1912, 77 / Atkinson had to go in her, though it was quite likely 

 S., 166 25 1 that she might not be able to re-enter the Sound. 



Conditions off Terra Nova Bay had not improved, 

 and the ship ran up and down outside the heavier pack trying 

 it in places wherever a sign of weakness showed; but with always 



the same result, that after entering two or three miles 

 March i and through pack which gradually grew heavier she would 

 2 Nova Bay" ^ e brought up. Once, indeed, she managed to work 



through to a position north-east seven miles from the 

 end of the Drygalski Barrier, but even here she was 35 miles 

 from her destination, and this was the last flicker of reasonable 

 hope. 



The following extract is from the ship's log: 

 ' All day on outskirts of ice filling Terra Nova Bay and ex- 

 tending fifteen to twenty miles eastward from the extremity of 

 the Drygalski Barrier. On the outskirts thin pancake and small, 

 but very heavy, bay ice floes ; the heavy floes becoming more nu- 

 merous and the new ice heavier the farther the pack is entered, 

 till heavy pack with interspaces all filled with snow slush forms 



