CHAP TERY 
THE DEPOT JOURNEY 
‘The dropping of the daylight in the west. 
RosertT Browninc. 
January to March rgrr 
ScoTT MEARES CREAN 
WILSON ATKINSON FORDE 
LIEUT. EVANS CHERRY-GARRARD DIMITRI 
BowERS GRAN 
OATES KEOHANE 
ImacinaTivE friends of the thirteen men who started from 
Cape Evans on January 24, 1911, may have thought of 
them as athletes, trained for some weeks or months to 
endure the strains which they were to face, sleeping a good 
nine hours a night, eating carefully regulated meals and 
doing an allotted task each day under scientific control. 
They would be far from the mark. For weeks we had 
turned in at midnight too tired to take off our clothes, and 
had been lucky if we were allowed to sleep until 5 a.m. 
We had eaten our meals when we could, and we had 
worked in the meantime just as hard as it was physically 
possible to do. If we sat down on a packing-case we went 
to sleep. 
And we finally left the camp in a state of hurry border- 
ing upon panic. Since the ice to the south of us, the road 
to the Barrier, was being nibbled away by thaw, winds and 
tides, it was impossible to lead the ponies down from the 
Cape on to the sea-ice. The open sea was before us and on 
our right front. It was necessary to lead them up among 
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