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come down alongside me with a bowline in it for me to put 

 my foot in and get dragged out. It was not a job I should 

 care to have to go through often, as by being in the crevasse 

 I had got cold and a bit frost-bitten on the hands and face, 

 which made it more difficult for me to help myself. Any- 

 how Mr. Evans, Bowers and Crean hauled me out and 

 Crean wished me many happy returns of the day, and of 

 course I thanked him politely and the others laughed, but 

 all were pleased I was not hurt bar a bit of a shake. It was 

 funny although they called to the other team to stop they 

 did not hear, but went trudging on and did not know until 

 they looked round just in time to see me arrive on top 

 again. They then waited for us to come up with them. 

 The Captain asked if I was all right and could go on again, 

 which I could honestly say ' Yes ' to, and at night when we 

 stopped for dinner I felt I could do two dinners in. Any- 

 how we had a pretty good tuck-in. Dinner consisted of 

 pemmican, biscuits, chocolate eclair, pony meat, plum 

 pudding and crystallized ginger and four caramels each. 

 We none of us could hardly move." x ] 



We had done over eight miles at lunch. I had managed 

 to scrape together from the Barrier rations enough extra 

 food to allow us a stick of chocolate each for lunch, with 

 two spoonfuls of raisins each in our tea. In the afternoon 

 we got clear of crevasses pretty soon, but towards the end 

 of the afternoon Captain Scott got fairly wound up and 

 went on and on. The breeze died down and my breath 

 kept fogging my glasses, and our windproofs got oppress- 

 ively warm and altogether things were pretty rotten. At 

 last he stopped and we found we had done 14! miles. He 

 said, "What about fifteen miles for Christmas Day?" so 

 we gladly went on — anything definite is better than indefi- 

 nite trudging. 



We had a great feed which I had kept hidden and out 

 of the official weights since our departure from Winter 

 Quarters. It consisted of a good fat hoosh with pony meat 

 and ground biscuit ; a chocolate hoosh made of water, 

 cocoa, sugar, biscuit, raisins, and thickened with a spoonful 



1 Lashly's diary. 



