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Miller of Lyttelton, who has performed a like service for 
more than one Antarctic ship. But the different layers of 
sheathing protecting a ship which is destined to fight 
against ice are so complicated that it is a very difficult 
matter to find the origin ofa leak. All that can be said with 
any certainty is that the point where the water appears 
inside the skin of the ship is almost certainly not the locality 
in which it has penetrated the outside sheathing. ‘“‘ Our 
good friend Miller,” wrote Scott, “attacked the leak and 
traced it tothe stern. We found the false stern split, and in 
one case a hole bored for a long-stern through-bolt which 
was much too large for the bolt... . The ship still leaks 
but the water can now be kept under with the hand pump 
by two daily efforts of a quarter of an hour to twenty 
minutes.” ‘This in Lyttelton; but in a not far distant 
future every pump was choked, and we were baling with 
three buckets, literally for our lives. 
Bowers’ feat of sorting and restowing not only the stores 
we had but the cheese, butter, tinned foods, bacon, hams 
and numerous other products which are grown in New 
Zealand, and which any expedition leaving that country 
should always buy there in preference to carrying them 
through the tropics, was a masterstroke of clear-headedness 
and organization. These stores were all relisted before 
stowing and the green-banded or Northern Party and red- 
banded or Main Party stores were not only easily distin- 
guishable, but also stowed in such a way that they were 
forthcoming without difficulty at the right time and in 
their due order. 
The two huts which were to form the homes of our two 
parties down South had been brought out in the ship and 
were now erected on a piece of waste ground near, by the 
same men who would be given the work to doin the South. 
The gear peculiar to the various kinds of scientific work 
which it was the object of the expedition to carry out was 
also stowed with great care. The more bulky objects in- 
cluded a petrol engine and small dynamo, a very delicate 
instrument for making pendulum observations to test the 
gravity of the earth, meteorological screens, and a Dines 
