SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 



non-freezing oil was prepared for me by Messrs. Price 

 and Company. Petrol was taken in the ordinary tins. 

 I secured wheels of several special patterns as well as 

 ordinary wheels with rubber tyres, and I had manu- 

 factured wooden runners to be placed under the front 

 wheels for soft surfaces, the wheels resting in chocks 

 on top of the runners. The car in its original form 

 had two bracket seats, and a large trough behind 

 for carrying stores. It was packed in a large case 

 and lashed firmly amidships on the Nimrod, in which 

 position it made the journey to the Antarctic continent 

 in safety. 



I placed little reliance on the dogs, as I have already 

 stated, but I thought it advisable to take some of these 

 animals. I knew that a breeder in Stewart Island, 

 New Zealand, had dogs descended from the Siberian 

 dogs used on the Newnes-Borchgrevink expedition, 

 and I cabled to him to supply as many as he could up to 

 forty. He was only able to let me have nine, but this 

 team proved quite sufficient for the purposes of the 

 expedition, as the arrival of pups brought the number 

 up to twenty-two during the course of the work in the 

 south. 



The equipment of a polar expedition on the scientific 

 side involved the expenditure of a large sum of money 

 and I felt the pinch of necessary economies in this 

 branch. I approached the Royal Society with a view to 

 securing the loan of the Eschen-Hagen magnetic instru- 

 ments that had been used by the Discovery, but that 

 body was unable to lend them, as they had been promised 

 in connection with some other work. I was lent three 

 chronometer watches by the Royal Geographical Society, 

 which very kindly had them thoroughly overhauled and 

 examined. I bought one chronometer watch, and three 

 wardens of the Skinners' Company gave me one which 



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