CHAPTER LIX 
THE SOCIETIES' ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 
Second Year. 
The arrival of the Morning with letters and fresh 
supplies of stores and provisions was a very welcome 
incident for the explorers, though the precaution had 
been taken to collect the largest possible supply of seal 
and other fresh meat. The need for constant exercise 
had been kept in view ; there was a good deal of hockey 
on the ice, dancing, and other amusements. The second 
winter thus passed without sickness and in the pleasantest 
fashion. 
When the travelling season approached Captain Scott 
decided that there should be a journey over the mountains 
to the west, led by himself, one to the south under Barne 
and Mulock, and one to the south-east over the barrier 
ice under Royds and Bernacchi, besides several shorter 
journeys for specific purposes. 
Captain Scott started on September gth, 1903, with 
Mr Skelton, Evans, Lashly, Mr Dailey, and Handsley. The 
first object was to find a new road to the Ferrar Glacier, 
and to lay out a depot. The discovery of a route by New 
Harbour was made, and the glacier was entered. It lay 
between massive cliffs like a ribbon of blue, down the 
middle of which ran a dark streak caused by a double line 
of boulders — a median moraine. The depot was placed 
on this moraine, 2000 ft. above the sea. Scott observed 
that where Antarctic glaciers run east and west the south 
side is much broken up and decayed, while the north side 
is comparatively smooth and even. The reason is that 
the most direct and warmest rays of the sun fall on the 
south side of a valley, and here the greatest amount of 
summer melting takes place. 
Scott's party returned, and found that Barne had 
laid out a depot S.E. of White Island, the temperature 
being as low as -70 0 . Royds had reached Cape Crozier 
