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100 WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD 
“The Old Sport [Levick] gave us a start by suddenly 
announcing that he could see a ship quite close, and for 
some time we were on tenterhooks, but his ship proved 
to be the Terra Nova ice-anchored off the Skuary. 
“The whole place is very eerie, there is such a feeling 
of life about it. Not only do I feel it but the others do also. 
Last night after I turned in I could have sworn that I 
heard people shouting to each other. 
“T thought that I had only got an attack of nerves but 
Campbell asked me if I had heard any shouting, for he had 
certainly done so. It must have been the seals calling to 
each other, but it certainly did sound most human. Weare 
getting so worked up that we should not be a bit surprised 
to see a settlement of Japanese or some other such people 
some day when we stroll round towards Blacksand Beach. 
The Old Sport created some amusement this evening by 
opening a tin of Nestlé’s milk at both ends instead of 
making the two holes at one end. He informed us that he 
had got so used to using two whole tins of milk for cocoa 
for fourteen people at night that he always opened them 
that way. 
‘“ As a consequence we have to spend most of our spare 
time making bungs to keep the milk in the tin.” } 
Meanwhile, as was to be expected, the action of the, 
I suspect, abnormal summer sea temperature was showing 
its effect upon the sea-ice. Sea-ice thaws from below when 
the temperature of the water rises. The northern ice goes 
out first here, being next to the open water, but big thaw 
pools form at the same time wherever a current of water 
flows over shallows, as at the end of Cape Evans, Hut 
Point and Cape Armitage. | 
On January 17 the ice was breaking away between the ~ 
point of Cape Evans and the ship, although a road still 
remained fast between the ship and the shore. The ship 
began to get up steam, but the fast ice broke away quickly 
that night. I believe they got steam in three hours, twelve 
hours being the time generally allowed: only just in time, — 
however, for she broke adrift as it was reported. The next 
1 Priestley’s diary. 
