IN WINTER QUARTERS WITH CAPTAIN SCOTT 243 



Chief areas. 



First in Africa and America. 



Second in Europe. 



First in Europe and America. 



First in Asia. 



First in Australasia. 



Second in Asia. 



Second in Africa. 



Second in Australia. 



There was then a considerable drop to the remaining seven 

 men. We had about two hours' violent discussion when I 

 read out the list. Simpson objected to the sailormen being 

 placed so high, for obviously in most cases they merely 

 touched at the seaports, and saw little of the country proper. 

 He said he would arrange them as follows : Meares, Taylor, 

 Ponting, Scott, Garrard. At any rate, Simpson could claim 

 the widest polar experience, for he had spent a year within 

 the Arctic circle studying the meteorology of Lapland ! Scott, 

 Wilson, and Day had been many months in Antarctica before ; 

 but unfortunately this is no-man's land, and I only allotted 

 each of them two marks for all this ! 



My second night-watch occurred on the nth. It was 

 blizzing outside at forty miles per hour. Hooper provided 

 me with a fine repast, which I sketched to fill in time ! There 

 was cocoa and bread and butter — a sort of currant-pudding 

 (euphoniously termed " Bugs in Bolster "), jam, honey, and 

 milk. No sardines, so that it was evident that I had got on 

 the blind side of the commissariat. 



Cherry yells out, " Didn't you get it away from the cliffs, 

 Sunny Jim ! ' which indicates that he's dreaming of tracking 

 balloons. 



In the wee smaa' hours I wrote " Valhalla, a celestial 

 medley," for the South Polar Times. This skit on the manners 

 and customs of the Antarctickers met with undeserved favour 

 in Scott's eyes. 



On the 15th Dr. Bill gave his second lecture, of which I 

 took full notes, and give them herewith. 



