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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
[February 
Sledging the stores on shore was commenced at once ; 
but it was two and three-quarter miles to Cape Evans 
(i.e. five and a half miles on the round trip), so that the 
work was necessarily slow. 
The unloading continued steadily till the 14th, with 
a break in the middle when a gale took another mile of 
ice out and so made work much quicker ; but on the 
14th the ice started breaking up and yet did not go out ; 
nothing could be done, and as after a day no change took 
place the ship crossed over the Sound to Butter Point 
to see conditions in that direction. There were still 
nineteen tons of stores, including some coal, to be landed, 
but all the essentials were ashore. 
At Butter Point a note from Taylor (in charge of the 
geological party) was found, saying that his party had 
camped there and gone on the previous day. 
Feb. 15, 1912. ^ : 
McMunio Following the coast south, this party was 
Sound. observed on the Blue Glacier, and they were 
soon on board, all well. It was fortunate that Taylor 
had realised early the impossibility of the ship reaching 
Granite Harbour and so had beaten a retreat south over 
the piedmont. His specimens he had been coinpelled to 
leave in a depot at Granite Harbour. 
Shortly after they were picked up it came on to 
snow and blow. Owing to the weather it was impossible 
Feb. 19, to land this party at Cape Evans, so the ship 
, turned north to pick up Campbell's team. 
27 166° J. J. J. 
49' Course was shaped direct for the extreme of 
the Drygalski Barrier, and the ship ran, with considerable 
pack to the east of her and loose pack in shore, until 
