i6 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [July 
putting them on in the morning. It has seemed to us 
an almost necessary precaution at these temperatures 
unless one is prepared to take the damp socks into the 
sleeping-bag every night, and this with so many weeks 
ahead of us we are loath to do, as we are trying our best 
to keep the bags dry in many ways — for instance, we 
kept our pyjama trousers and pyjama jackets only for 
night wear to begin with, until they became so wet and 
stiff that in order to wear them at all they had to be kept 
on permanently. From the day of the blizzard incident 
at Cape Crozier back to Cape Evans, neither Bowers nor 
I made use of our jackets, however, at all — they were 
stowed away, stiff, in the tank, and so returned home. 
Wednesday^ July 5, 191 1. — At 3 a.m. the whole sky 
was clearing and at 7 a.m. we turned out. The surface 
was now worse than we had as yet experienced, and we 
moved dreadfully slowly with one sledge load at a time. 
In y\ hours hauling we only made miles good. 
The min. temp, last night was - 54'6°, and by the 
evening the temp, had dropped to -6i'i^. We were 
then surrounded by a white fog, but could see Erebus 
and Terror. The cirro-stratus gave a white-looking sky 
in the moonlight and a fair halo with mock moons and 
vertical beams and a particularly well-defined mock moon 
beneath on the horizon. 
All day we had been hauling up hill, and we hoped it 
was Terror Point we were crossing. Settlements of the 
crust occurred regularly again at short intervals. The 
surface still shows no sign of windcut sastrugi, and though 
much of it is wind-hardened and smooth, it appears to 
