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ingly loud and startling, if unexpected. The mules soon 
settled down to the roars and became accustomed to them, 
but it was always a source of great interest to the dogs. 
As soon as one of these subsidences with its roar came 
to them they started off at full gallop, expecting at any 
moment some animal to appear. They had been accus- 
tomed in Siberia to dig out animals lying up snowed in. 
These subsidences were a great help and kept the dogs 
interested, and they ran very well. 
On the night of the loth and morning of the iith we 
made One Ton Depot, coming up five and three-quarters 
miles to it. I decided to give men and animals a half- 
day's rest here. It was a beautiful sunny and bright day 
but with some wind. Here we found the stores which 
had been left by Demetri and Cherry-Garrard. One of 
the tins of paraffin on top of the cairns had leaked and 
spoilt some of the stores placed at the foot of the camp. 
There was no hole of any kind in this tin. 
Our progress up to this point had been made in a day 
and a half less time than it had taken us on the previous 
year, and that was with the mules drawing full loads for 
the whole of the time. There was no doubt that our 
surface had been infinitely better than in the previous 
season. Everything was favourable and the health of 
men and animals was splendid. 
On the night of the nth and morning of the I2th, 
after we had marched eleven miles due south of One 
Ton, we found the tent. It was an object partially 
snowed up and looking like a cairn. Before it were the 
ski sticks and in front of them a bamboo which probably 
