I2 4 
SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
time than I anticipated. I heard that all the people who 
journeyed towards C. Royds yesterday reached their 
destination in safety. Campbell, Levick, and Priestley 
had just departed when I returned. 10 
Tuesday, January 17.— We took up our abode in the 
hut to-day and are simply overwhelmed with its comfort. 
After breakfast this morning I found Bowers making 
cubicles as I had arranged, but I soon saw these would 
not fit in, so instructed him to build a bulkhead of cases 
which shuts off the officers' space from the men's, I am 
quite sure to the satisfaction of both. The space between 
my bulkhead and the men's I allotted to five : Bowers, 
Oatcs, Atkinson, Mcares, and Cherry-Garrard. These 
five are all special friends and have already made their 
dormitory very habitable. Simpson and Wright arc near 
the instruments in their corner. Next come Day and 
Nelson in a space which includes the lattcr's * Lab.' near 
the big window ; next to this is a space for three — 
Debcnham, Taylor, and Gran ; they also have already 
made their space part dormitory and part workshop. 
It is fine to see the way everyone sets to work to put 
things straight ; in a day or two the hut will become the 
most comfortable of houses, and in a week or so the whole 
station, instruments, routine, men and animals, &c, will 
be in working order. 
It is really wonderful to realise the amount of work 
which has been got through of late. 
It will be a fortnight to-morrow since we arrived in 
McMurdo Sound, and here we arc absolutely settled down 
and ready to start on our depot journey directly the 
