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Garrard, and Mr Lillie; instead of one geologist he took 
three, Mr Griffith Taylor, Mr Debenham, and Mr Priestley, 
one of them a specialist in physiography ; instead of one 
physicist he took two, Dr Simpson and Mr Wright ; besides 
a photographer of great ability, Mr Ponting. A young 
Sub-Lieutenant of the Norwegian navy, named Tryggve 
Gron, came as a ski expert, Mr Day as motor engineer, 
and Mr Meares in charge of the dogs. 
The Terra Nova left the docks on June ist, and arrived 
at Stokes Bay on June 3rd, 1910. They were all cordially 
received by the Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth and 
at Cardiff there was another enthusiastic reception. 
During the voyage out the Terra Nova touched at Simon's 
Bay, Melbourne, and Lyttelton ; large and very generous 
subscriptions to the expedition being received from Cape 
Colony, Australia, and New Zealand. 
After a stay of a month at Lyttelton, where the ponies 
and dogs were taken on board, and a valuable addition 
was made to the executive officers in the person of Scott's 
brother-in-law, Wilfred Bruce, the Terra Nova finally 
sailed for the Antarctic regions on November 29th, 1910. 
Three days had not passed before the explorers en- 
countered a furious storm from the S.W., lasting from 
December ist to 3rd. The ship, hove to under a main 
lower topsail, laboured heavily and big seas began to come 
on board. The ponies suffered greatfy, and Captain Oates 
and Dr Atkinson worked incessantly throughout the gale, 
dragging the poor beasts on to their legs again. The 
solid water which came on board lifted the coal bags and 
flung them against the rest of the deck cargo, acting like 
battering rams and gradualfy loosening the lashings of the 
petrol cases and forage bales. Soon the whole of the deck 
cargo was in danger, and there was nothing for it but to 
heave the coal bags overboard and re-lash the petrol cases. 
But the seas were continually breaking over the crew, 
and now and again they were completely submerged. 
Worse was to come. It was reported that the pumps 
were choked and that the water, steadily gaining, was now 
over the stokehold plates. Every effort was being made 
to keep the fires fed, but a considerable part of the water 
on the upper deck found its way below. Then it was 
discovered that the main engine pump was also choked. 
