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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
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to Abbott — The Igloo Coated with Snow — Diet and Disease — 
' Igloo Back —Penguin Meat Better than Seal — A Tiring 
Start — Illness and a Gale — A Narrow Escape — Mount 
Erebus in Sight — Among Pressure Ridges — The Norden- 
skiold Ice Tongue — Seals Found — Browning's Condition — 
Renewed Strength and Health — News at Butter Point — 
Browning's Recovery — Arrive at Cape Evans — At Cape 
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THE WESTERN JOURNEYS 
CHAPTER I 
KOETTLITZ, FERRAR, AND TAYLOR GLACIERS 
Comrades and Comradeship — Instriictions — Equipment — Glass- 
roof Ice — A Snowless Valley — Alcove Camp — ' Lake Chad ' 
and ' Round Valley ' — ' A Few Feathers in the Bed ' — 
Sledge Literature — In Crevasses — ' Browning the Boots ' — 
The Sound of the Sea Ice — ' Armadillo Camp — ' Park 
Lane Camp ' — Seals on the Koettlitz Glacier — Compass 
Readings — An Eventful Lunch — In the Pinnacle Ice — At 
the Place of the Pony Disaster — Antarctic Changes . .182 
CHAPTER II 
THE GEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO GRANITE HARBOUR 
Instructions— Improvement in Gear — A March Through a 
Snowstorm — Head Gear- — The Old Glacier Tongue — On 
Salty Snow — Sledge Routine — Rendezvous Bluff- — Daily 
Menu — ' Too Tired to Think ' — Insects Discovered — ' Granite 
House * — Gondola Mountain- — Reading in a Blizzard — A 
Dangerous Passage — Skuas' Eggs — Amateur Doctoring — - 
Feast Days — The ' Barrier Shudder — Gondola Ridge — 
Ascent of Gondola Nunatak — A Photographic Epitome — 
Antarctic Gardening — Crossing a Shear Crack — Sad History 
of the Skuas— Recreations — Gran's Birthday — The Ship 
Disappears — A Compulsory March — A Saving Depot Left — 
Perilous Marching — Eye Treatment — At Butter Point— Met 
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SPRING DEPOT JOURNEY 
The New Double Tent — The Cairn Buried in Snow — Marching 
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