THE END OF THE EXPEDITION 



I have brought the story of the Expedition up to April, 1912, 

 so far as my own part in it is concerned. But it will be of 

 interest to give a brief 

 resume of the much more 

 arduous journeys of the 

 other divisions of the Ex- 

 pedition. 



Let us consider the 

 distribution of the personnel 

 in the middle of December. 

 In the far north at Cape 

 Adare, Campbell and his 

 five mates were awaiting 

 the arrival of the Terra 

 Nova to take them to fresh 

 fields of work. The sea- 

 ice had blown out early in 

 spring, and they had been 

 cooped up on the rocky 

 promontory unable to ex- 

 plore the hinterland, just 

 as had Borchgrevinck ten 

 years earlier. The ship was 

 not due until early in 

 January, but Levick's pen- 

 guin studies and Priestley's 

 ice-notes testify to the in- 

 dustry of the scientific staff 

 during their imprisonment. 



Further south my own party was preparing to climb the 

 Mackay Glacier, as recorded previously. We were to be 

 taken north on the ship to Evans Coves (to spend five weeks 



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Chart of parties, December 14, 191 1 

 (Amundsen reaches the Pole). 



