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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [January 
who made much merriment of the event. It was still 
funnier when he brought his final load (an exceptionally 
heavy one) with a set face and ardent pace, vouchsafing 
not a word to anyone he passed. 
We have achieved fair organisation to-day. Evans 
is in charge of the road and periodically goes along search- 
ing for bad places and bridging cracks with boards and 
snow. 
Bowers checks every case as it comes on shore and 
dashes off to the ship to arrange the precedence of differ- 
ent classes of goods. He proves a perfect treasure ; there 
is not a single case he does not know or a single article 
of any sort which he cannot put his hand on at once. 
Rennick and Bruce are working gallantly at the 
discharge of stores on board. 
Williamson and Lecsc load the sledges and are getting 
very clever and expeditious. Evans (scajnan) is generally 
superintending the sledging and camp outfit. Forde, 
Keohane, and Abbott are regularly assisting the carpenter, 
whilst Day, Lashly, Lillie, and others give intermittent 
help. 
Wilson, Cherry-Garrard, Wright, Griffith Taylor, 
Debenham, Crean, and Browning have been driving ponies, 
a task at which I have assisted myself once or twice. There 
was a report that the ice was getting rotten, but I went 
over it myself and found it sound throughout. The 
accident with the motor sledge has made people nervous. 
The weather has been very warm and fine on the whole, 
with occasional gleams of sunshine, but to-night there is 
