I9II] MR. CHERRY-GARRARD'S DIARY 3 
has been sedulously stripped away from Dr. Wilson's 
objective record, written with a more strictly scientific 
outlook. 
Such notes have a manifold value. Every personality 
receives its own impression of the same incidents, recalls 
a different aspect, throws sidelights from a different 
angle. The young traveller records for himself a fresh 
and vivid personal impression, undiminished by reshaping 
into the perhaps necessary reticence of an official report. 
Not least, also, he gives us details about his chief which 
Dr. Wilson could not or would not have set down. 
His own share in the expedition is the more remark- 
able because, short-sighted as he was, he could not wear 
his spectacles under such conditions. 
With the help of these notes, the reader can fill in 
somewhat of those lights and shades which the official 
report, addressed to a Polar explorer, needed not to 
add. Now that the other two comrades in the adventure 
are no more, Mr. Cherry-Garrard has been prevailed 
upon to let his diary be used as it is used here. Let 
him be assured that his chief fear is groundless — the 
fear that in allowing such very personal jottings to be 
quoted, he should be imagined to magnify his own share 
in the expedition, instead of insisting, as he would have 
insisted in a public report, on the wonderful work of his 
friends : the strength, the steadfastness, and the serenity 
with which they carried it through. There was never an 
angry word from beginning to end, even in the most 
trying times. These unpremeditated notes help to make 
Wilson and Bowers stand out in their true colours. 
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