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IN WINTER QUARTERS WITH CAPTAIN SCOTT 231 



blue light filtered in through the outer wall, as vivid and 

 glowing as it is possible to imagine." 



Cherry-Garrard now began his most arduous winter 

 employment as Editor of the South Polar Times. He had 

 brought down a typewriter, and proposed to continue the 

 Antarctic publication, of which two volumes had already 

 appeared in 1903-4, in Scott's First Expedition. His notice 

 read as follows : — 



Notice. 

 South Polar Times. 



The first number of the South Polar Times will be published on 

 Midwinter Day. 



All are asked to send in contributions signed anonymously, and to 

 place these contributions in the box under the looking-glass as soon 

 as possible. No contributions will be accepted for this number after 

 May 31st. 



A selection of these will be made for publication. 



It is not intended that the paper shall be too scientific. Contri- 

 butions may take the form of prose, poetry, or drawings. Contributors 

 whose writings lend themselves to illustration are asked to consult with 

 the Editor as soon as possible. 



The Editor, 

 S.P.T. 



A tin receptacle was nailed under the notice board, and 

 labelled the Editor's Box, and Cherry set to work on his 

 editorial pending the avalanche of contributions. Three 

 issues appeared in 191 1, and one other in 1912, but I shall 

 describe S.P.T., as it was familiarly termed, in greater detail 

 later in the narrative. 



I commenced duty as night- Watchman on the 28th. I 

 used to spend some of the long hours in writing my journal, 

 so that there is never any dearth of notes of what happened 

 about that period ! 



I wrote on this occasion, " It is not the sinecure that I 

 imagined. Primarily I have to go out every hour and observe 

 the aurorse. If they are really on tap, I have to stay on 

 Wind Vane Hill (a quarter of a mile off) till they're over ! 

 (I hope it stays overcast !) There was a fine display at 9 p.m. 

 Sunny Jim had taken me out to see the spectroscope test. 

 Behind Erebus it was going strong, and I could see a bar in 



