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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
[April 
A partial blizzard sprang up and we set sail ; with 
this help we made good 8 miles during the two hours of 
light remaining to us. 
On March 31, snow was falling heavily and we got under 
way in a very bad light. Our condition was bad, as 
owing to the low temperatures we had got no sleep. We 
made good to the Biscuit Depot, 15 miles from home, and 
then proceeded in the dusk for one more mile. 
The next day, April i, with a strong following breeze 
and a sail to help us, we reached Hut Point after dark. 
We were both glad to be in and to get some sleep. By 
this time all hope of the return of the Southern Party had 
been given up. Cape Evans was separated from us by 
open water and it was then impossible to get help from 
that quarter while, for all we knew, Campbell and his 
party had still not been relieved and were somewhere on 
the coast. I regarded their relief at this time as being of 
prime importance. To effect this it was essential to get 
help from Cape Evans, as at Hut Point we had two sick 
men and two men who were capable of sledging at that 
time of the year. We watched the Sound anxiously for 
any chance of being able to get across the sea ice to Cape 
Evans. Almost every day it froze over in a thin sheet, 
only to be swept away by high winds. The temperatures 
recorded at this time of the year were 10'' to 15° lower 
at Hut Point than they had been in the previous season. 
On April 10 the two Bays, one between Glacier Tongue 
and the Hutton Cliffs on the peninsula and the other 
between the Glacier Tongue and Cape Evans, having 
frozen over, I decided to make along the peninsula with 
