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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [January 
finally left Cape Evans and proceeded in the Terra Nova 
to Cape Royds, where a depot of specimens left by 
Priestley's party on the Erebus journey was embarked. 
We then steamed up the Sound towards Hut Point 
until brought up by the fast ice which still stretched 
out for nearly ten miles from the southern shores of 
McMurdo Sound. 
Early on January 20 Atkinson set out with a party 
of seven to erect a cross in memory of our lost com- 
panions. It had been constructed by Davies of jarrah, 
an Australian wood. 
This cross, 9 feet in height, now stands on the 
summit of Observation Hill, overlooking the Great Ice 
Barrier and in full view of the Discovery winter quarters. 
IN 
MEMORIAM 
Capt. R. F. Scott, R.N. 
Dr. E. a. Wilson, Capt. L. E. G. Gates, Ins. Drgs., Lt. H. R. Bowers, R.I.M. 
Petty Gfficer E. Evans, R.N. 
who died on their 
return from the 
pole, march 
I9I2 
to strive, to seek, 
TO FIND, 
and not to 
YIELD 
The line clioscn from Tennyson's ' Ulysses ' was 
suggested by Cherry-Garrard. Atkinson's sledge team 
consisted of those who had taken part In the search for 
Captain Scott. 
