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Makaka by name. When unloading the ship this dog 
had been overrun by the sledge which he was helping 
to pull; he suffered again when the team of dogs fell 
down the crevasse, and was now partially paralysed. He 
_was a wretched object, for the hair refused to grow on his 
hind quarters, but he was a real sportsman and had no 
idea of giving in. Meares and I went out one night when 
it was blowing hard, attracted by the cries of a dog. It was 
_Makaka who had ventured to climb a steep slope and was 
now afraid to return. When the dogs finally returned to 
Cape Evans, Makaka was allowed to run by the side of the 
team; but when Cape Evans was reached he was gone. 
Search failed to find him and, after some weeks, hope of 
him was abandoned. But a month afterwards Gran and 
Debenham went over to Hut Point, and here at the 
entrance of the hut they found Makaka, pitifully weak 
but able to bark to them. He must have lived on seal, but 
_how he did so in that condition is a mystery. 
The reader may ask how it was that being so near our 
Winter Quarters at Cape Evans we were unable to reach 
them immediately. Cape Evans is fifteen miles across the 
sea from Hut Point, and though both huts are on the same 
island—Hiut Point being at the end of a peninsula and 
Cape Evans on the remains of a flow of lava which juts out 
into the sea—the land which joins the two has never yet 
_been crossed by a sledge party owing to the great ice falls 
which cover the slopes of Erebus. A glance at the map 
will show that although Hut Point is surrounded with sea, 
_ Or sea-ice, on every side except that of Arrival Heights, the 
‘Barrier abuts upon the Hut Point Peninsula to the south 
beyond Pram Point. Thus there is always communication 
with the Barrier by a devious route by which indeed we had 
‘just arrived, but farther progress north is cut off until the 
cold temperature of the autumn and winter causes the 
Open sea to freeze. We arrived at Hut Point on March 5 
/and Scott expected to be able to cross on the newly-frozen 
‘ice by about March 21. However, it was nearly a month 
after that when the first party could pass to Cape Evans, 
and then only the Bays were frozen and the Sound was 
