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and they exhausted all their food on January 26th, 

 but soon picked up their depot and reached the Ross 

 Ice Shelf again on January 29th. Early in February 

 all suffered greatly from dysentery, but on the twelfth 

 they reached the depot where the pony, Chinaman, was 

 shot and they feasted on his liver. On the nineteenth 

 they sighted Erebus and next day reached Depot A. 

 Marshall became very feeble and was left with Adams 

 while Shackleton and Wild pushed north to Hut Point 

 on Ross Island. Here they found open water separat- 

 ing them from Cape Royds. After some time they 

 managed to make a signal fire, and on March ist they 

 were aboard the ship. Shackleton immediately started 

 back to bring in Marshall and all the expedition were 

 united on March 4th. 



On October 5th the Magnetic Pole party started with 

 Professor David as leader. He was accompanied by 

 Mawson and Mackay. They sledged up the western 

 coast of Ross Sea, a hazardous journey on the sea-ice 

 in view of the probable breaking up of the ice without 

 notice. On October 26th they crossed the mouth of 

 Granite Harbor, and on November ist they made a 

 depot of much of their food and gear at Dbpot Island 

 (latitude 76° 40'). This Avas necessary because they 

 could only relay four miles a day owing to the load 

 and heavy surface. On November nth they reached 

 the Nordenskjold Ice Tongue and crossed it in two 

 days (see Figure 6). A fortnight later they first saw 

 the much larger Drygalski Ice Tongue, that ''scaly 

 horror with his folded tail," as David describes it (see 

 Figure 19). On the twenty-ninth they started to cross 



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