44. WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD 
meat and vegetables was being felt, and it was an excellent © 
thing that a body of men, for whom every precaution 
against scurvy that modern science could suggest was 
being taken, should have a good course of antiscorbutic 
food and an equally beneficial change of life before leaving 
civilization. 
And so it was with some anticipation that on Monday 
morning, October 24, we could smell the land—New Zea- 
land, that home of so many Antarctic expeditions, where 
we knew that we should be welcomed. Scott’s Discovery, 
Shackleton’s Nimrod, and now again Scott’s Terra Nova 
have all in turn been berthed at the same quay in Lyttel- 
ton, for aught I know at the same No. ¢ Shed, into which 
they have spilled out their holds, and from which they 
have been restowed with the addition of all that New 
Zealand, scorning payment, could give. And from there 
they have sailed, and thither their relief ships have re- 
turned year after year. Scott’s words of the Discovery 
apply just as much to the Terra Nova. Not only did New 
Zealand do all in her power to help the expedition in an 
official capacity, but the New Zealanders welcomed both 
officers and men with open arms, and “‘gave them to under- 
stand that although already separated by many thousands 
of miles from their native land, here in this new land they 
would find a second home, and those who would equally 
think of them in their absence, and welcome them on their 
return.” 
But we had to sail round the southern coast of New 
Zealand and northwards up the eastern coast before we 
could arrive at our last port of call. The wind went ahead, 
and it was not until the morning of October 28 that we 
sailed through Lyttelton Heads. The word had gone forth 
that we should sail away on November 27, and there was 
much to be done in the brief month that lay ahead. 
There followed four weeks of strenuous work into 
which was sandwiched a considerable amount of play. The 
ship was unloaded, when, as usual, men and officers acted 
alike as stevedores, and she was docked, that an examina- 
tion for the source of the leak might be made by Mr. H. j. 
