CHAPTER V 
DEPOT LAYING TO ONE TON CAMP 
Tuesday, January 24. — People were busy in the hut 
all last night — we got away at 9 a.m. A boat from the 
Terra Nova fetched the Western Party and myself as the 
ponies were led out of the camp. Mcarcs and Wilson 
went ahead of the ponies to test the track. On board 
the ship I was taken in to see Lillie's catch of sea animals. 
It was wonderful, quantities of sponges, isopods, pentapods, 
large shrimps, corals, &c, &c. ; but the piece de resistance 
was the capture of several bucketsfull of cephalodiscus 
of which only seven pieces had been previously caught. 
Lillie is immensely pleased, feeling that it alone repays 
the whole enterprise. 
In the forenoon we skirted the Island, getting 30 and 40 
fathoms of water north and west of Inaccessible Island. 
With a telescope we could sec the string of ponies steadily 
progressing over the sea ice past the Razor Back Islands. 
As soon as we saw them well advanced we steamed on 
to the Glacier Tongue. The open water extended just 
round the corner and the ship made fast in the narrow 
angle made by the sea ice with the glacier, her port side 
flush with the surface of the latter. I walked over to meet 
