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The water gained to the lower level of the boilers, and 
the order had to be given to draw fires. The ship was 
very deeply laden, and it did not need the addition of 
much water to get her water-logged. As the water was 
gaining and there were no pumps available, the only 
resource left was an attempt at baling, yet the idea of 
baling a ship out by hand seemed ludicrous. Nevertheless 
all the officers and scientific staff fell to, working two 
hours' spells all day and night, passing up buckets of 
water from hand to hand. 
Captain Scott felt that, at all hazards, they must get 
at the hand pump suctions, and ordered a hole to be made 
in the steel bulkhead behind the boiler. All this time 
the gale was raging as furiously as ever. About midnight 
the hole through the bulkhead was completed, and Evans 
and Bowers crawled through to the pump suctions and 
found them choked with coal. This was got out, and the 
pump on being tried again gave a good stream once more. 
By morning the level of the water was brought under the 
stokehold plates again. Very slowly the wind and sea 
had been moderating and in the afternoon of December 
3rd they were able to continue the voyage. Two ponies 
had dropped never to rise again, with the minor losses of 
10 tons of coal, 65 gallons of petrol, and a case of the 
biologists' spirits. The ship had been in great danger. 
This terrible experience in its absorbing interest stands side 
by side with Ross's story of the collision among the icebergs. 
On December 9th the Terra Nova entered the pack in 
65 0 5' S. and 178 0 E. There was a long detention, unlike 
the fortunate voyage of the Discovery, and it was not 
until December 30th that the ship was extricated in 
71 0 30' S., having had to force her way through 370 miles 
of ice. On January 3rd, 1911, Cape Crozier was sighted, 
the ship entered M'Murdo Sound, and on the 4th she was 
off the winter quarters at Cape Evans, 14 miles north of 
the Discovery's winter quarters. The landing was at once 
commenced. In a week the house, stores, coals, animals, 
and equipments were all on shore. In a fortnight the 
house was built and habitable, and in three weeks every- 
thing was ready for the depot journey. 
One part of Captain Scott's plan was that Lieut. 
Campbell should explore King Edward VII Land with 
