4i2 WITH SCOTT: THE SILVER LINING 



they had not been able to communicate with Cape Evans 

 until a week before, and had been unloading stores every 

 available moment before they came over to search for us. 

 And then the world's news made us feel safer in the Antarctic 

 at first hearing : the disruption of China, the Franco-German- 

 English trouble in Morocco, the Italians and Turks in Tripoli, 

 and the great strikes in England. We had missed an event- 

 ful year during our sojourn in the peaceful regions of the 

 South. 



