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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
CHAPTER XIII 
THE RETURN OF THE SUN 
Pack 
The Indomitable Bowers — A Theory of Blizzards— Ponies' 
Tricks — On Horse Management — The Two Esquimaux Dogs 
— Balloon Records — On Scurvy — From Tent Island — On 
India — Storms and Acclimatisation — On Physiography — 
Another Lost Dog Returns — The Debris Cones — On Chinese 
Adventures — Inverted Temperature ..... 370 
CHAPTER XIV 
PREPARATIONS : THE SPRING JOURNEY 
On Polar Clothing — Prospects of the Motor Sledges — South Polar 
Times, II — The Spring Western Journey — The Broken 
Glacier Tongue — Marching Against a Blizzard — The Value 
of Experience — General Activity — Final Instructions . 401 
CHAPTER XV 
THE LAST WEEKS AT CAPE EVANS 
Clissold's Accident — Various Invalids — Christopher's Capers — 
A Motor Mishap— Dog Sickness— Some Personal Sketches— 
A Pony Accident — A Football Knee — Value of the Motors — 
The Balance of Heat and Cold— The First Motor on the 
Barrier — Last Days at Cape Evans 
CHAPTER XVI 
SOUTHERN JOURNEY: THE BARRIER STAGE 
Midnight Lunches— A Motor Breaks Down— The Second Motor 
Fails— Curious Features of the Blizzard— Ponies Suffer in a 
Blizzard— Ponies Go Well— A Head Wind— Bad Conditions 
Continue— At One Ton Camp— Winter Minimum Tempera- 
ture—Daily Rest in the Sun— Steady Plodding— The 
First Pony Shot— A Trying March— The Second Pony Shot 
—Dogs, Ponies, and Driving— The Southern Mountains 
Appear— The Third Blizzard — A Fourth Blizzard— The 
Fifth and Long Blizzard— Patience and Resolution— Still 
Held Up— The End of the Barrier Journey 
