22 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [July 
as thick as could be with hcdw. This continued all day, 
and we lay wet and warm in our bags, listening to the 
periodic niovenients of tlie ice pressure, apparently tidal 
to some extent, beneath and about us. 
Tuesday^ July i i, 191 1. The temp, at 10 a.m. went up 
to I y'H'' ['a rise of over So"' from the record minimum], 
and at S r.M. was still | 6*S", witli a minimum for ihe day 
of I 3'2". 'I'he wind canu- from S.W., force 5 U) 9, and 
very s(pially. This contiiuied all day with a very con- 
siderablt^ snowfall which packed our tent in l^^ to 2 feet 
all lound, as well as all our sledge gear. Cherry is slill 
in Jiis down bag inside the reindeer with fur outside. 
J}(jwers still as he started, with fur outside. I turned 
my bag yesterday from lur inside to fur outside. TJic 
rise in temperature and tlie long lie-in during this bliz/ard 
have steamed us and our clothes into a very sodden wet 
condition, and one wondered wliat a return to low 
tcMuperalures would ellcct. 
We liave been cbscussing our respective rations, and 
tlu*y have- beeii somewhat revised as follows : 
On |uly 6 Cherry fell the need for more food, and 
would havt' chosen fat, either butter or pemmican, had 
he not been experimenting on a large biscuit allowance. 
So he increased his biscuits to twelve a day, and found 
ihal it did away to some extent with his desire for more 
food and fat. But h(^ occasionally had Iieartburn, and 
has ceitainb^ felt the cold more than Bowers and I have, 
aiul has hatl more frostbite in hamls, feet, and face than 
we liave. 
1 have altogether failed tt) cat anything approacliing 
