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Lashly, as the reader may know by now, was a chief 

 stoker in the Navy, and accompanied Scott on his Plateau 

 Journey in the Discovery days. The following account of 

 the motors' chequered career is from his diary, and for 

 permission to include here both it and the story of the 

 adventures of the Second Return Party, an extraordinarily 

 vivid and simple narrative, I cannot be too grateful. 



After the motors had been two days on the sea-ice on 

 their way to Hut Point Lashly writes on 26th October 

 191 1 : 



" Kicked off at 9.30; engine going well, surface much 

 better, dropped one can of petrol each and lubricating oil, 

 lunched about two miles from Hut Point. Captain Scott 

 and supporting party came from Cape Evans to help us over 

 blue ice, but they were not required. Got away again after 

 lunch but was delayed by the other sledge not being able 

 to get along, it is beginning to dawn on me the sledges are 

 not powerful enough for the work as it is one continual 

 drag over this sea-ice, perhaps it will improve on the 

 barrier, it seems we are going to be troubled with engine 

 overheating ; after we have run about three-quarters to a 

 mile it is necessary to stop at least half an hour to cool the 

 engine down, then we have to close up for a few minutes to 

 allow the carbrutta to warm up or we can't get the petrol to 

 vaporize; we are getting new experiences every day. We 

 arrived at Hut Point and proceeded to Cape Armitage it 

 having come on to snow pretty thickly, so we pitched our 

 tent and waited for the other car to come up, she has been 

 delayed all the afternoon and not made much headway. At 

 6.30 Mr. Bowers and Mr. Garrard came out to us and told 

 us to come back to Hut Point for the night, where we all 

 enjoyed ourselves with a good hoosh and a nice night with 

 all hands. 



"zjth October 1911. 



" This morning being fine made our way out to the cars 

 and got them going after a bit of trouble, the temperature 

 being a bit low. I got away in good style, the surface seems 

 to be improving, it is better for running on but very rough 

 and the overheating is not overcome nor likely to be as far 



