4 WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD 
of these are watchkeepers. In the next cabin are Simpson, 
meteorologist, back from Simla, with Nelson and Lillie, 
marine biologists. In the last cabin, the Nursery, are the 
youngest, and necessarily the best behaved, of this com- 
munity, Wright, the physicist and chemist, Gran the Nor- 
wegian ski-expert, and myself, Wilson’s helper and assist- 
ant zoologist. It is dificult to put a man down as per- 
forming any special job where each did so many, but that 
is roughly what we were. 
Certain men already began to stand out. Wilson, with 
an apparently inexhaustible stock of knowledge on little 
things and big; always ready to give help, and always 
ready with sympathy and insight, a tremendous worker, 
and as unselfish as possible; a universal adviser. Pennell, 
as happy as the day was long, working out sights, taking 
his watch on the bridge, or if not on watch full of energy 
aloft, trimming coal, or any other job that came along; 
withal spending hours a day on magnetic work, which he 
did as a hobby, and not in any way as his job. Bowers 
was proving himself the best seaman on board, with an 
exact knowledge of the whereabouts and contents of every 
case, box and bale, and with a supreme contempt for heat 
or cold. Simpson was obviously a first-class scientist, de- 
voted to his work, in which Wright gave him very great 
and unselfish help, while at the same time doing much of 
the ship’s work. Oates and Atkinson generally worked to- 
gether in a solid, dependable and somewhat humorous way. 
Evans, who will always be called Lieutenant Evans in 
this book to distinguish him from Seaman Evans, was in 
charge of the ship, and did much to cement together the 
rough material into a nucleus which was capable of stand- 
ing without any friction the strains of nearly three years 
of crowded, isolated and difficult life, ably seconded by | 
Victor Campbell, first officer, commonly called The Mate, — 
in whose hands the routine and discipline of the ship was | 
most efficiently maintained. I was very frightened of 
Campbell. 
Scott himself was unable to travel all the way out to — 
New Zealand in the Terra Nova owing to the business 
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