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SCO'ITS LAST EXPEDITION 
[January 
ponies have had a proper chance to recover from the 
effects of the voyage. I had no idea wc should be so 
expeditious. 
It snowed hard all last night ; there were about three 
or four inches of soft snow over the camp this morning 
and Simpson tells me some six inches out by the ship. 
The camp looks very white. During the day it has been 
blowing very hard from the south, with a great deal of 
drift. Here in this camp as usual we do not feel it much, 
but we see the anemometer racing on the hill and the snow 
clouds sweeping past the -ship. The floe is breaking 
between the point and the ship, though curiously it re- 
mains fast on a direct route to the ship. Now the open 
water runs parallel to our ship road and only a few 
hundred yards south of it. Yesterday the whaler was 
rowed in close to the camp, and if the ship had steam 
up she could steam round to within a few hundred 
yards of us. The big wedge of ice to which the ship is 
holding on the outskirts of the Bay can have very 
little grip to keep it in and must inevitably go out 
very soon. I hope this may result in the ship finding a 
more sheltered and secure position close to us. 
A big iceberg sailed past the ship this afternoon. 
Atkinson declares it was the end of the Cape Barnc Glacier. 
I hope they will know in the ship, as it would be interest- 
ing to witness the birth of a glacier in this region. 
It is clearing to-night, but still blowing hard. The 
ponies don't like the wind, but they are all standing the 
cold wonderfully and all their sores are healed up. 
Wednesday > January 18. — The ship had a poor time 
