SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [July 
We still carry out the brush routine every time we 
break camp, to clear away all the rime formed on the 
inner tent lining. The outer tent is extraordinarily free 
from frost — and remained so to the day we returned to 
Cape Evans. The lower skirts of the inner tent, however, 
are solid with ice. 
Towards evening the wind abated considerably, and 
parts of Mt. Terror came into view, but during the night 
the wind came on again with much snow and violent 
gusts, increasing at times to force lo. We were unable 
to march. The min. temp, for the night was - 7'6^. 
Wednesday^ July 12, 191 1. — We were compelled to 
remain in our bags again all day. Wind from S.W., force 
10, and squally up to force 9 all the afternoon, with much 
drift. Temp, up to + 2*9^ again in the morning. Towards 
night there were lulls, and at 3 a.m. the wind ceased. 
Bowers turned his bag from hair outside to hair inside, 
his first change since starting. 
Thursday, July 13, 191 1 . — After digging out our 
sledges and tent, which were pretty deeply buried in drift, 
we had a really good day's march, making j\ miles in 
7I hours with both sledges. [Seems a marvellous run.] 
During our march, in our effort to avoid the pressure 
ridges on our right, we got imperceptibly somehow too 
high up on to the slopes of Terror and were held up by 
a very wide crevasse with an unsafe-looking sunken lid, 
which we caught sight of in a momentary break of moon- 
light just in time to avoid it. We turned down its side 
and found it was one of a number that marked a low 
mound in the land ice slopes. We made out east again 
