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WITH SCOTT: THE SILVER LINING 



surrounded by tremen- 

 dous eaves, which were 

 meant to protect stores, 

 etc. We found the door 

 blocked by ice, and had 

 to enter by a window. 

 It was filled with snow 

 to a depth of four feet, 

 which had drifted in 

 through various open- 

 ings. We found a bul- 

 wark of biscuit boxes in 

 the middle, and various 

 stores of chocolate, etc. 

 Some brownish powder, 

 after some cogitation, we 

 determined to be pepper. 

 It had quite "lost its 

 savour " in the ten years 

 of exposure. Alongside 

 were the little magnetic 

 huts. Wright comman- 

 deered some asbestos 

 sheets for our own mag- 

 netic equipment, and 

 then we set off to see the 

 real object of our visit. 



Captain Scott had 

 noticed an exposure of 

 lamellar rocks of a sandy 

 appearance among the 

 almost uniformly dark 

 basic rocks of this region, 

 and, although no geolo- 

 gist, he realized that it 

 was possible that a frag- 

 ment of the well-known 

 Beacon Sandstone (a 

 fossil- bearing rock) had 

 been torn up by a basic 

 lava on its passage to the 



