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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
[April 
flat on the boiler-room plates, and when the ship listed 
to starboard, stretch right down with his head below the 
plates and clear as much coal away from round the suction 
as possible. This often meant that the water surged back 
before he could get his head out, and there can be few 
nastier liquids to be ducked in than that very dirty 
bilge-water. 
Meanwhile for the hand pumps Davies had to take off the 
bottom lengths of the suction pipes^ lift them, and clear them 
from below. To do this the flange rivets had to be bored 
out, and it took eight hours'incessant work to finish the job. 
During the re-fitting at Lyttelton pumps and every- 
thing connected with them were thoroughly overhauled in 
all respects and never gave serious trouble again. 
Paterson Inlet was made on March 28 and Lyttelton 
on April i . 
Throughout all her cruise the scientific side of the 
ship's work was undertaken as follows : Lillie had all 
the biological work and Rennick was solely in charge of the 
soundings, and it can be safely said that neither of them 
missed a single opportunity that offered ; 
Meteorological Log : Drake ; 
Zoological Log : Bruce ; 
Magnetic Log and Current Log : Pennell ; 
while the officer of the watch, at the time, kept a genera 
lookout for anything of interest that might occur. 
The ship lay at Lyttelton for three months, 
Lyttelton, . 
April I- undergoing a general and thorough refit. 
July 10. Rennick was employed the whole time in 
plotting as much of the surveying work carried out in the 
