238 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [November 
tide cracks and bumpy ice and put up the tent in a little 
alcove. Here there was not room to spread the poles 
properly, so the tent flapped under the blizzard. We 
were safe however on fixed ice for the first time for days, 
even if it was only a yard or so wide ! 
On leaving View Point we proceeded due west up the 
south side of Granite Harbour. We saw ahead of us an 
ice tongue projecting into the bay ice. We had to cross 
a nasty tide crack quite twenty feet wide, but luckily 
only a foot or two in the middle was of pulpy ice. Very 
heavy clouds rolled up from the south and it started to 
snow, so I decided to camp in the lee of the tongue. 
Wc made a good pitch on the ice with splendid snow 
blocks for the carving from a big drift alongside. 
Dates and meals were rather hard to adjust at this 
time. Midnight would be in the middle of a march, and 
supper would be celebrated at 8 a.m. However, as night 
marching was no good for surveying, I decided to go 
back to day work now wc were inside the Harbour. 
An opportune blizzard kept us to the tent long enough 
to enable us to straighten out the calendar ! 
It continued to snow. We cut out breakfast and 
kept comfortably to our bags all morning. We had 
lunch normally at 1.30. Our last meal had been a lunch 
(at midnight) and Gran caused some amusement by 
demanding the chocolate for the missed meal. During 
this blizzard I was cook, and trying to increase my culinary 
skill I wrote down full notes of our menu. 
Breakfast, — Pemmican (looking like lumps of block 
chocolate) is put into the aluminium cup to full measure. 
