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records, or Campbell and his men (who might be alive). 
There were not enough men left to do both. We believed 
that the Polar Party had come to grief through scurvy, or 
through falling into a crevasse—the true solution never 
occurred to us, for we felt sure that except for accident or 
disease they could find their way home without difficulty. 
We decided to leave Campbell to find his way unaided 
down the coast, and to try and find the Polar Party’s records. 
To our amazement we found their snowed-up tent some 
140 geographical miles from Hut Point, only 11 geo- 
graphical miles from One Ton Camp. They had arrived 
there on March 19. Inside the tent were the bodies of 
Scott, Wilson and Bowers. Oates had willingly walked out 
to his death some eighteen miles before in a blizzard. 
Seaman Evans lay dead at the bottom of the Beardmore 
Glacier. 
Having found the bodies and the records the Search 
Party returned, proposing to make their way up the West- 
ern Coast in search of Campbell. On arrival at Hut Point 
with the dog-teams, I must have gone to open the hut 
door and found pinned on to it a note in Campbell’s hand- 
writing; but my recollection of this apparently memor- 
able incident is extraordinarily vague. It was many long 
months since we had had good news. This was their story. 
When Campbell originally landed at Evans Coves he 
brought with him sledging provisions for six weeks, in 
addition to two weeks’ provisions for six men, 56 lbs. sugar, 
24 lbs. cocoa, 36 lbs. chocolate and 210 lbs. of biscuit, some 
Oxo and spare clothing. In short, after the sledge work 
which they proposed, and actually carried out, the men 
were left with skeleton rations for four weeks. They had 
also a spare tent and an extra sleeping-bag. It was not seri- 
ously anticipated that the ship would have great difficulty 
in picking them up in the latter half of February. 
Campbell’s party had carried out successful sledging 
and useful geological work in the region of Evans Coves. 
They had then camped on the beach and looked for the 
ship to relieve them. There was open water lashed to fury 
