SOUTH 
Adams, Joyce, and Wild across to the hut whilst the Nimrod was 
lying off the ice. 
On the return of the party they reported that the door had been 
burst open, evidently by a southerly blizzard, and was jammed by 
snow outside and in, so they made an entrance through one of the 
lee windows. They found the hut practically clear of snow, and the 
structure quite intact. I used the hut in the spring, i.e. September 
and October 1908, as a storehouse for the large amount of equip- 
ment, food, and oil that we were to take on the Southern journey. 
We buUt a sort of living-room out of the cases of provisions, and 
swept out the debris. The Southern Party elected to sleep there 
before the start, but the supporting party siej^t outside in the tents, 
as they considered it warmer. 
We still continued to use the 'ee window as means of ingress and 
egress to avoid continual shovelling away of the snow, which woidd be 
necessary as every southerly bhzzard blocked up the main entrance. 
The various depot parties made use of the hut for replenishing their 
stores, which hnd been sledged from my own hut to Hut Point. 
On the night of March 3, 1909, I arrived* with the Soixthern Party, 
with a sick man, having been absent on the march 128 days. Our 
position was bad, as the ship was north of us. We tried to burn the 
Magnetic Hut in the hope of attracting attention from the ship, 
but were not able to get it to light. We finally managed to light a 
flare of carbide, and the ship came down to us in a blizzard, and all 
were safely aboard at 1 a.m. on March 4, 1909. Before leaving the hut 
we jammed the window up with baidks of timber, to the best of our 
abiUty in the storm and darkness. The hut was used again by the 
Eoss Sea Section of this last Expedition. The snow was cleared out 
and extra stores were placed in it. From reports I have received 
the Discovery Hut was in as good condition in 1917 as it was in 1902. 
The stores placed there in 1902 are intact. There are a few cases 
of extra provisions and oil in tJie hut, but no sleeping gear or ac- 
commodation, nor stoves, and it must not be looked upon as any- 
thing else than a shelter and a most useful pied-d-terre for the start 
of any Southern journey. No stores nor any equipment have been 
taken from it during cither of my two Expeditions. 
(2) Cape Royds Hut 
For several reasons, v/hen I went into McMurdo Sound in 1908 
in command of my own Expedition, known as the British Antarctic 
Expedition, after having failed to land on Iling Edward VII Land, 
I decided to build our hut at Cape Eoyds— a small pioraontory 
twenty-three miles north of Hut Point. Here the whole shore party 
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