INTRODUCTION Ixi 
Wilson, Oates, Bowers, Evans. They are all drawn for us 
clearly by him in these pages; they stand out unmistak- 
ably. They, too, come to be friends of ours, their death 
is as noble and as heartbreaking. And there were gallant 
gentlemen, I said, who lived—you may read amazing 
stories of them. Indeed, it is a wonderful tale of manliness 
that these two volumes tell us. I put them down now; but 
I have been for a few days in the company of the brave... 
and every hour with them has made me more proud for 
those that died and more humble for myself.” 
I have quoted this review at length, because it gives the 
atmosphere of hero-worship into which we were plunged 
on our return. That atmosphere was very agreeable; but 
it was a refracting medium through which the expedition 
could not be seen with scientific accuracy—and the ex- 
pedition was nothing if not scientific. Whilst we knew 
what we had suffered and risked better than any one else, 
we also knew that science takes no account of such things ; 
that a man is no better for having made the worst journey 
in the world ; and that whether he returns alive or drops 
by the way will be all the same a hundred years hence if his 
records and specimens come safely to hand. 
In addition to Scott’s Last Expedition and Priestley’s 
Antarctic Adventures, Griffith ‘Taylor, who was physio- 
grapher to the Main Party, has written an account of the 
two geological journeys of which he was the leader, and 
of the domestic life of the expedition at Hut Point and at 
Cape Evans, up to February 1912, in a book called With 
Scott: The Silver Lining. This book gives a true glimpse 
into the more boisterous side of our life, with much useful 
_ information about the scientific part. 
Though it bears little upon this book I cannot refrain 
from drawing the reader’s attention to, and earning some 
of his thanks for, a little book called Antarctic Penguins, 
written by Levick, the Surgeon of Campbell’s Party. It 
is almost entirely about Adélie penguins. The author 
spent the greater part of a summer living, as it were, upon 
sufferance, in the middle of one of the largest penguin 
rookeries in the world. He has described the story of 
