THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC 



is much warmer, the temperature to-night being about 

 minus 1° Fahr. 



January 22. — Started at 7.30 a.m. on a good surface 

 that changed to crevassed ice slopes in the afternoon, 

 down which we made fair progress. Am still too ill 

 to harness up, but as the pull was not much it did not 

 matter. Indeed, we had another man out of harness 

 guiding the sledge. The distance to-day was 15^ 

 miles. 



January 23. — Similar weather, surface and work. 

 Fine and warm; temperature plus 8° Fahr. 



January 24. — One of our hardest day's work, and 

 certainly the longest, for we started at 6.45 a.m., went 

 on till 12.50 p.m., had lunch, started at 2 p.m., went on 

 till 6 p.m., had a cup of tea, and went on till 9 p.m. Then 

 we had our single pot of hoosh and one biscuit, for we 

 have only two days' food left and one day's biscuit on 

 much reduced ration, and we have to cover 40 miles of 

 crevasses to reach our depot before we can get any more 

 food. I am now all right again, though rather weak. 

 We had a terribly hard time in the crevassed ice this 

 morning, and now our sledge has not much more than 

 half a runner on one side, and is in a very shaky state. 

 However, I believe we are safe now. The distance to-day 

 was 16 miles, statute. 



January 25. — We started away from camp at 6.45 

 a.m., marched till noon, when we had a cup of tea, and 

 then marched till 3 p.m., when we had lunch, consisting 

 of a cup of tea, two biscuits, two spoonfuls of cheese. 

 Then we marched till 9 p.m., when we had one pot of 

 hoosh and one biscuit. We did 26 miles; fine weather. 

 The food is all finished but one meal. No biscuit, only 

 cocoa, tea, salt and pepper left, very little of these also. 

 Must reach depot to-morrow. It was fairly good going 

 to-day till the last two hours, and then we were falling 



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