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fodder with which we left New Zealand were: compressed 
chaff, 30 tons ; hay, 5 tons; oil-cake, 5-6 tons; bran, 4-5 
tons ; and two kinds of oats, of which the white was better 
than the black. We wanted more bran than we had.! This 
does not exhaust our list of feeding stuffs, for one of our 
ponies called Snippets would eat blubber, and so far as I 
know it agreed with him. 
We left New Zealand with nineteen ponies, seventeen 
of which were destined for the Main Party and two for the 
help of Campbell in the exploration of King Edward VII.’s 
Land. Two of these died in the big gale at sea, and we 
landed fifteen ponies at Cape Evans in January. Of these 
we lost six on the Depét Journey, while Hackenschmidt, 
who was a vicious beast, sickened and wasted away in our 
absence, for no particular reason that we could discover, 
until there was nothing to do but shoot him. Thus eight 
only out of the original seventeen Main Party ponies which 
started from New Zealand were left by the beginning of 
the winter. 
I have told? how, during our absence on the Depédt 
Journey, the ship had tried to land Campbell with his 
two ponies on King Edward VII.’s Land, but had been 
prevented from reaching it by pack ice. Coasting back 
in search of a landing place they found Amundsen in 
the Bay of Whales. Under the circumstances Campbell 
decided not to land his party there but to try and land on 
the north coast of South Victoria Land, in which he was 
finally successful. In the interval the ship returned to Cape 
Evans with the news, and since he was of opinion that his 
animals would be useless to him in that region he took the 
opportunity to swim the two ponies ashore, a distance of 
half a mile, for the ship could get no nearer and the sea-ice 
had gone. Thus we started the winter with Campbell’s two 
ponies (Jehu and Chinaman), two ponies which had sur- 
vived the Depot Journey (Nobby and James Pigg), and 
six ponies which had been left at Cape Evans (Snatcher, 
Snippets, Bones, Victor, Michael and Christopher) a total 
of ten. 
1 Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 4. 2 See pp. 130-134. 
