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SCOTTS LAST EXPEDITION 
[August 
turned in, and being tired after our hard pull were soon 
asleej:). I was awakened about 9 p.m. by a tremendous 
din, and found the lee skirting of the tent had blown 
out from under the heavy ice blocks we had piled on it, 
and the tent poles were bending under the weight of wind. 
We just had time to roll out of our bags and hang on to 
the skirting or the tent would have gone. Taking advan- 
tage of a lull we got out and piled more ice on the skirting, 
but even tliat was not enough, and we spent a miserable 
night hanging on to the skirting of the tent. The blizzard 
dropped by noon the next day, and by one o'clock we 
were of! again, camping at 5.30, when it was too dark 
to go on. 
Starting again just before daybreak on the 4th, we 
reached the h ut the same evening. The temperatures 
we experienced were not low, the lowest being - F. 
The chief result of this journey was to show that we 
must expect very bad travelling surfaces up the coast 
and that I niust alter mv original plan, which was to 
start about August 20 with two units of three. I now 
saw that it would take a party of four to get along over 
the pressure ice we must expect, so I decided to take 
Priestley, Abbott, and Dickason with six weeks' provisions 
and do without a supporting party, leaving Levick and 
Browning to carry on the w^ork at Cape Adare. 
Jugtist 8. — Levick, Priestley, Browning, and Dicka- 
son left this morning for Warning Glacier to do geology. 
We had depoted our outfit about 10 miles down the 
coast, only packing our sleeping-bags, so tliey were able 
to go without a sledge, taking their sleeping-bags on their 
