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the dome tent and lit a primus to warm it while we cooked 
our supper. We had thus a much more comfortable night 
than the blubber stove could have given us. 
[The hut struck us as fairly warm ; we could almost 
feel it getting warmer as we went round C. Armitage. 
We managed to haul the sledge up the ice foot. We 
pitched the dome tent in the place where Crean used to 
sleep and got both primus going in it — for there was 
plenty of oil there, and we got it really warm, and drank 
cocoa without sugar so thick that next morning we were 
gorged with it. We were very happy, falling asleep 
between each mouthful. After some hours of this we 
discussed several schemes of not getting into our bags 
at all, but settled it was best to do so.] 
We had three hours in our bags and turned out at 
3 A.M., hoping to make an early start to get into Cape 
Evans before dinner-time. But a strong easterly wind 
got up and prevented our start, so we continued to doze 
in the tent as we sat there, in preference to being in our 
bags. 
At 9.30 A.M. the wind dropped, and we got away at 
II, but met with a very cold breeze off the land on round- 
ing Hut Point. We walked out of it, however, in a mile 
or so by getting into the open, and then made a straight 
course all the way for Cape Evans, deciding not to camp 
for lunch until we had passed the broken ice off the end 
of Glacier Tongue by daylight. This took ns 5I hours, 
and we camped at 4.30 p.m., exactly 8 miles from Hut 
Point. 
The surface was varied, and we were a mile or so 
