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side Glacier Tongue. At 3 p.m. the ice anchors held, and it 

 was possible to get ashore, and start " icing ship," for the 

 tanks were nearly empty. We had to lie bow on, and get the 

 ice in by a basket slung from the foreyard. A very slow and 

 laborious business ; it took us six hours to get 4^ tons of ice 

 aboard. 



We then moved off to Hut Point, where we landed some 

 stores and newspapers for the Pole Party if they should 

 be isolated from Cape Evans, as we had been in April, 191 1. 

 Here I met Wright again. We learnt that Evans was very 

 seriously ill with scurvy. They wrapped him up in his 

 sleeping-bag and, dragging him to the ice edge, brought him 

 aboard in the ship's boat. We let down ropes to the seamen 

 below, and they lashed him safely, and he was hauled up, 



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looking more like a corpse than a live man. However, he 

 could speak cheerfully enough, as usual ! 



We returned post haste to our hut to take advantage of 

 the unusually calm weather. We unloaded more stores — 

 chiefly fodder, coal, mutton, and dog biscuits, and then moved 

 north immediately to make a second try for Campbell at 

 Evans Coves (lat. 75 S.). Day, Dennistoun, and I spent 

 the morning of the 1st of March shifting cargo. Indeed, we 

 seemed to spend a large part of our time during the ensuing 

 month in that abode of gloom — the empty hold of the Terra 

 Nova ! 



At 10 p.m. we were about fifteen miles from Cape Wash- 

 ington, in very heavy pancake ice, with a slight swell. There 

 was a thick ice-mush between the blocks, and this jammed the 



