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crevasse, fall into, and its effects, (i.) 

 386; death, (i.) 394-5: food shortage, 

 (i.) 369 rations reduced, 391, 393: 

 heavy pulling, (i.) 378, 379, 384: hunger 

 increasing, (i.) 382, 383, 385, 393: lost 

 articles recovered, (i.) 383, 384: Gates 

 beginning to fail cold feet and frost- 

 bites, (i.) 378: sandy snow, (i.) 378, 379, 

 384, 393: Scott's accident, (i.) 385, 386: 

 ski boots, signs of wear, (i.) 379: sleep in 

 spite of anxieties, (i.) 381: sleeping-bags, 

 condition of, (i.) 382, 385: steering im- 

 possible snow, (i.) 390; tracks lost, 

 (i.) 377, 38i, 382, 385 



Sixth and Last Stage Return Journey 

 on the Barrier, (i.) 396: absence of wind, 

 (i.) 399, 400: cairns and tracks, (i.) 397 

 et seq. : finnesko, (i.) 401: head winds, (i.) 

 401, 405, 406, 407, 409: heavy pulling, 

 (i.) 399: hope lessening, (i.) 403, 404: 

 hunger, (i.) 400: means of ending troubles 

 handed over from medicine case, (i.) 406, 

 407: natural death, decision to face, (i.) 

 412, 415: Gates failing condition of 

 feet, &c., and consequent delay, (i.) 402, 

 403 et seq., death, (i.) 408: rapid closing 

 of season, abnormal weather conditions, 

 (i.) 399, 400 et seq., 406, 407 et seq., unex- 

 pected low temperatures, (i.) 404: 

 shifting sledges, (i.) 396: shortage of 

 fuel at Southern Barrier Depot, (i.) 398, 

 App. 26, 439; further shortages at 

 Middle Barrier and Mount Hooper 

 Depot, (i.) 402, 406: snow blindness, 

 (i.) 392, 399; spirit of the party, 397, 403, 

 409; steering difficulties, (i.) 397-8, 400; 

 surface terrible sandy snow, sastrugi, 

 &c., (i.) 396, 399 et seq.; talk in the tent, 

 (i.) 404; weather-bound in last camp 

 the fatal blizzard, (i.) 409-10, App. 27, 

 441; no one to blame Scott's letters, (i.) 

 412-13 



Geological work, (i.) 388, 389, 392, 

 (ii.) 237, 300, 302, 344: grave of Polar 

 Party, (ii.) 237-8, ill. 236: map, (i.) at 

 end of text: meal in camp, ill. (i.) 316: 

 memorial cross on Observation Hill, (ii.) 

 272 and ill. : monotony, (i.) 360, 361, 369, 

 371, 374, 383 



Return of supporting parties appear- 

 ance of members on return, ill. (i.) 350; 

 Day and Hooper, (i.) 325; dog teams 

 under Meares, (i.) 340 note, 341, 398; 

 First (Atkinson's) Party, (i.) 340 note, 



352, 353, App. 23, 437; date of arrival 

 at Cape Evans, (ii.) 204: Second (Lieut. 

 Evans) Party, (i.) 340 note, 364, 388, 392- 

 399, App. 24, 438, (ii.) 205 



Shackleton's dates comparison with, 

 (i.) 348, 349, 352 dates caught up, 361: 

 Shackleton's luck, contrast with, (i.) 

 332, 341, (") 334= sleeping-bags, getting 

 into, ill. (i.) 322 



Supporting expeditions dog teams 

 sent to meet Southern Party, (i.) 406 

 note, (ii.) 206; held up by blizzards, (ii.) 

 206-9; navigation difficulties, (ii.) 210- 

 216; not relief expeditions, (ii.) 206; plans 

 and stores, (ii.) 205; question of travel- 

 ling south from One Ton Camp, (ii.) 208 

 stores left at camp, 208; return, hard- 

 ships of effect on men and dogs, (ii.) 

 208, 209; second attempt, (ii.) 211-216 

 Southern (Last) Depot, (i.) 373, 378 

 Southern Mountains description, (i.) 334: 

 geology, (i.) 348, 350, 352; banding- 

 recurrence of Beacon Sandstone, (i.) 344; 

 rocks, (i.) 331: nearness to Pole sug- 

 gested by snow conditions, (i.) 372: 

 scenery, (i.) 358: trend of possibility 

 of shortening journey to the Pole, (i.) 



334 



Southern road interruption, danger of, (i.) 

 95 and note; passage of, by ponies, (i.) 97 



Southern Search Party, (1912) ill. (ii.) 

 234: alternatives, plans, &c., (ii.) 223 

 decision, 224 et seq.: commander of mule 

 party C. S. Wright, (ii.) 232: crevasses, 

 precautions against, (ii.) 233: depot lay- 

 ing, (11.^230, 231: depots, depletion of 

 heavy starting weights necessitated, (ii.) 

 225: dog teams, (ii.) 229: routine, (ii.) 

 235: tent found, cairn built, (ii.) 237, 238, 

 ill. 236 Gates' epitaph, 238 



Speyer, Sir E. Honorary Treasurer, (ii.) 

 338, 345: Scott's farewell letter to, (i.) 

 412 



Sphinx Rock, (ii.) 75 



Sponges found, (ii.) 144, 147, ill. 329: abun- 

 dance at sea bottom, (ii.) 333; Granite 

 Harbour, (ii.) 274 



Spray ridges of ice after a blizzard, ill. (i.) 



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Stapf, Dr. O. examination of South Trini- 

 dad specimens, (ii.) 330 

 Stevenson, R. L., quoted, (i.) 289 

 Stores taken, (i.) 97-99: arrangement on 

 landing, (i.) 70: firms supplying, (ii.) 



