ic6 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [SicrrFMnKK 
Priestley, Browning, and Dickason went with liim, 
and the party took provisions f(;r a week, 
September 27. — Levick and liis party returned to-day 
and reported bad weather and blizzards nearly the whole 
time. They managed, however, to get a few photographs. 
I am arranging to start on our western journey October i. 
Levick and Browning will come as far as Cape Wood to 
take photographs. 
October 3. — Weather-bound until to-day, when, the 
weather clearing in the afternoon, wc transported our 
sledges and gear over the pressure ice lying round the 
beach and left them three miles south. 
October 4. — A fine morning, so after a 5.30 breakfast 
we started away witli our sleeping-bags on our backs, and 
picking up our sledges made pretty good progress over 
salt-lleckcd ice with occasicmal belts of pressure. 
To show tlie superiority of our iron runners over 
salt-flecked ice, I may mention that two of us pulled the 
iron-runner sledge weighing 1000 lbs. and kept ahead of 
Levick's sledge with cmly 200 lbs. and four men in the 
traces. About 12 miles out we came to a lot of pressure, 
so I took my party, consisting of Priestley, Abbott, and 
Dickason, and steered for Relay Bay, telling Levick and 
Browning to go their own pace and make tlie best of their 
way to the cave. 
Wc camped that night in the middle of Relay Bay and 
after supper pulled the iron-runner sledge and depot to a 
cave discovered on the north side of Point Penelope on a 
former journey, where we left it, as this sledge is no use in 
deep snow. Wc found Levick had just arrived all right, 
