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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [June 
Tuesday^ June 27, 191 1. — Leaving the hut at Cape 
Evans shortly before 11 a.m., Bowers, Cherry-Garrard 
and I started for our first march, accompanied by Simpson, 
Meares, Griffith Taylor, Nelson and Gran, who all helped 
us to drag our two sledges, and by a number of others 
who came to see us round the Cape. 
We made for the western extremity of Big Razorback 
Island, and halted when it had just closed and covered 
the Little Razorback. We were then not 100 yards from 
the actual end of the rock and the sledgemeter read 
3 miles 700 yards. Nelson and Taylor left us here and 
we continued with the other three. 
We could now just distinguish the rock patches of 
Castle Rock and Harbour Heights and we made in a bit 
to pass as close as possible to the end of Glacier Tongue, 
where pressure lines were said to be less numerous in the 
sea ice than farther out. It was so dark, however, that 
we never saw the end of this Glacier Tongue, and we 
only knew we had passed it when the lower two-thirds 
of the Turk's Head Cliffs were suddenly cut off. 
We then ran into some very difficult hummocky sea 
ice with steep-cut drifts, and our rear sledge capsized. 
It was too dark to avoid them, so Meares, Simpson and 
Gran remained with us and helped us until we had cleared 
them. We were then about three-quarters of a mile beyond 
Glacier Tongue and the sledgemeter read 5 m. 250 yds. 
The wind, light southerly airs alternating with calm 
all the forenoon, now began to blow with some force 
from the east, and the sky became more and more over- 
cast in the south [a half blizzard, in fact] ; so we per- 
