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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
CHAPTER IV 
SETTLING IN p ACE 
I-oss of a Motor — A Dog Dies — Result of Six Days' Work — 
Restive Ponies — An Ice Cave — Loading Ballast — Pony 
Prospects — First Trip to Hut Point — Return : Prospects of 
Sea Ice — A Secure Berth — The Hut — Home Fittings and 
Autumn Plans — The Pianola — Seal Rissoles — The Ship 
Stranded — Ice begins to go . . . . . 106 
CHAPTER V 
DEP6T laying to one ton camp 
Dogs and Ponies at Work — Stores for Deptta — Old Stores at 
Discovery Hut — To Encourage the Pony — Depot Plans — 
Pony Snow-shoes — Impressions on the March — Further 
Impressions — Sledging Necessities and Luxuries — A Better 
Surface — Chaos Without ; Comfort Within — After the 
Blizzard — Marching Routine— The Weakest Ponies Return 
— Bowers and Cherry-Garrard — Snow Crusts and Blizzards 
— A Resented Frost-bite — One Ton Camp. . . .139 
CHAPTER VI 
ADVENTURE AND PERIL 
Dogs' and Ponies' Ways — The Dogs in a Crevasse — Rescue 
Work — Chances of a Snow Bridge — The Dog Rations — A 
Startling Mail— Cross the Other Party— The End of ' Weary 
Willy '—The Ice Breaks— The Ponies on the Floe— Safely 
Back i 7 6 
CHAPTER VII 
AT DISCOVERY HUT 
Fitting up the Old Hut— A Possible Land Route— The Geological 
Party Arrives— Clothing— Exceptional Gales— Geology at 
Hut Point— An Ice Foot Exposed— Stabling at Hut Point — 
Waiting for the Ice— A Clear Day— Pancake Ice— Life at 
Hut Point— From Hut Point to Cape Evans— A Blizzard on 
the Sea Ice — Dates of the Sea Freezing . . . .198 
CHAPTER VIII 
HOME IMPRESSIONS AND AN EXCURSION 
Baseless Fears about the Hut— The Death of ' Hackenschmidt 1 — 
The Dark Room— The Biologists' Cubicle— An Artificer 
Cook — A Satisfactory Organisation — Up an Ice Face — An 
Icy Run— On Getting Hot 228 
