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another in Bowers’ hands. Scott was a leader of men, and 
it is a good quality in such to delegate work from them- 
selves on to those who prove their power to shoulder the 
burden. Undoubtedly Bowers saved Scott a great deal of 
work, and gave him time which he might not otherwise 
have been able to spare to interest himself in the scientific 
work of the station, greatly to its benefit, and do a good 
deal of useful writing. The two ways in which Bowers 
helped Scott most this winter were in the preparation 
of the plans and the working out of the weights of the 
Southern Journey, which shall be discussed later, and in 
the routine work of the station, for which he was largely 
responsible, and which ran so smoothly that I am unable 
to tell the reader how the stores were issued, or the dinner 
settled, by what rule the working parties for fetching ice 
for water and other kindred jobs about the camp were 
ordered. They just happened, and I don’t know how. I 
only know that Bowers had the bunk above mine in the 
hut, and that when I was going to sleep he was generally 
standing on a chair and using his own bunk as a desk, 
and I conclude from the numerous lists of stores and 
weights which are now in my hands that these were being 
produced. Anyway the job was done, and the fact that 
we knew nothing about it goes far to prove how efficiently 
it was carried through. 
For him difficulties simply did not exist. I have never 
known a more buoyant, virile nature. Scott’s writings 
abound in references to the extraordinary value he placed 
upon his help, and after the share which he took in the 
Depét and Winter Journeys it was clear that he would 
probably be taken in the Polar Party, as indeed proved to | 
be the case. No man of that party better deserved his place. » 
‘I believe he is the hardest traveller that ever undertook 
a Polar Journey, as well as one of the most undaunted.” # 
The standard is high. | 
Bowers gave us two of our best lectures, the first on 
the Evolution of Sledge Foods, at the end of which he dis- 
cussed our own rations on the Depédt Journey, and made 
1 Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 362. 
