I9II] THE HARDEST JOURNEY ON RECORD 77 
It is also difficult already, after two nights' rest, 
with a dozen men all round anticipating your every wish, 
and with the new comfortable life of the hut all round 
you, to realise completely how bad the last few weeks 
have been, how at times one hardly cared whether we 
got through or not, so long as (I speak for myself) if I 
was to go under it would not take very long. Although 
our weights are not very different, I am only lib. and 
Bill and Birdie 3^ lbs. lighter than when we started, 
we were very done when we got in, falling asleep on 
the march, and unable to get into our finnesko or eat 
our meals without falling asleep. Although we were 
doing good marches up to the end, we w^ere pulling slow 
and weak, and the cold was getting at us in a way in 
which it had never touched us before. Our fingers were 
positive agony immediately we took them out of our 
mits, and to undo a lashing took a very long tim.e. The 
night we got in Scott said he thought it was the hardest 
journey which had ever been made. Bill says it was 
infinitely worse than the Southern Journey in 1902-3. 
I would like to put it on record that Captain Scott 
considered this journey to be the hardest which had 
ever been done. This was a well-considered judgment. 
A. Cherry-Garrard. 
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