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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
[July 
After lunch, which we finished about 6.30 p.m., we got 
an indistinct view of the mountains, and saw we were 
beginning to close Mt. Terra Nova with Mt. Terror, but 
the fog came down again at once, and at 9.45 p.m. we 
camped, as we were unable to guess at all what direction 
we had been making. We only made one and two-thirds 
miles good in the day. 
The min. temp, for the night from 12 to 2 p.m. had 
been -75'8. At 2 p.m. it was - 58'3°, and at 7 p.m. had 
risen to - 55*4°? a change which we felt as a grateful one 
both in our hands and feet on the march. [There is some- 
thing after all rather good in doing something never done 
before— these temperatures must be world's record.] 
Saturday^ July 8, 191 1. — A day of white fog and high 
moonlight but without a trace of landmark to guide us. 
We relayed as usual, four hours in the forenoon, for 
i\ miles, and three hours in the afternoon for one mile 
only. We were on a better surface, either more windswept 
or else improved by the rise in temperature, but still deep 
and soft to walk in, though often with harder crusted 
areas. Here and there were really hard and slippery 
windswept snow surfaces occurring under a covering of 
some inches of quite soft snow, showing the peculiar 
planed-off appearance which was always associated with 
horse-shoe impressions and very heavy dragging. We 
made our course to-day by compass. 
The min. temp, for the night was- 59*8° and at 10.30 a.m. 
-52'3°, with south-easterly airs, and -47° at 7.15 p.m. 
Sunday^ July 9, 191 1. — Dense mist, and white fog 
[the fourth day of fog], and snow falling all day, made 
