3o6 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
Depot by a blizzard, Demetri's condition causing Cherry 
Garrard great alarm. 
On March l6, after a night of blizzard, they started 
at 8 A.M. They reached Hut Point late in the afternoon, 
meeting there Petty Officer Keohane and myself. Both 
men were in exceedingly poor condition, Cherry-Garrard's 
state causing me serious alarm. The dogs were frost- 
bitten, and miserably thin, while in many cases their 
harnesses were iced up and frozen to them. They were 
quite unfit for any further work that season. 
Cherry-Garrard under the circumstances and accord- 
ing to his instructions was in my judgment quite right 
in everything that he did. I am absolutely certain no 
other officer of the Expedition could have done better. 
