INTRODUCTION lix 
and night merged into one long lingering feast, and when 
they started on again their mouths were sore? with eating 
biscuits. More, there is little doubt that the change of diet 
saved Browning’s life. As they moved down the coast they 
found another depdt, and yet another. They reached Hut 
Point on November 5. 
The story of this, our Northern Party, has been told in 
full by the two men most able to tell it: by Campbell in 
the second volume of Scott’s book, by Priestley in a sep- 
arate volume called Antarctic Adventure.? I have added 
only these few pages because, save in so far as their adven- 
tures touch the Main Party or the Ship, it is better that I 
should refer the reader to these two accounts than that I 
should try and write again at second hand what has been 
already twice told. I will only say here that the history of 
what these men did and suffered has been overshadowed 
by the more tragic tale of the Polar Party. They are not 
men who wish for public applause, but that is no reason 
why the story of a great adventure should not be known; 
indeed, it is all the more reason why it should be known. 
To those who have not read it I recommend Priestley’s 
book mentioned above, or Campbell’s equally modest ac- 
count in Scott’s Last Expedition. 
The Terra Nova arrived at Cape Evans on January 18, 
1913, just as we had started to prepare for another year. 
And so the remains of the expedition came home that 
spring. Scott’s book was published in the autumn. 
The story of Scott’s Last Expedition of 1910-13 is 
a book of two volumes, the first volume of which is Scott’s 
personal diary of the expedition, written from day to day 
before he turned into his sleeping-bag for the night when 
sledging, or in the intervals of the many details of organiza- 
tion and preparation in the hut, when at Winter Quarters. 
The readers of this book will probably have read that 
diary and the accounts of the Winter Journey, the last 
year, the adventures of Campbell’s Party and the travels of 
1 This tenderness of gums and tongue is additional evidence of scurvy. 
2 Published by Fisher Unwin, 1914. 
3 Vol. ii., Narrative of the Northern Party. 
