1 84 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [February 
cracks running from the Bluff to Cape Crozier, but my 
hope is that the danger does not extend beyond a mile 
or two, and that the cracks are narrower on the pony 
road to Corner Camp, If eight ponies can cross without 
accident I do not think there can be great danger. 
Certainly we must rigidly adhere to this course on all 
future journeys. We must try and plot out the danger 
line.* I begin to be a little anxious about the returning 
ponies. 
I rather think the dogs are being underfed; they 
have weakened badly in the last few days — more than 
such work ought to entail. Now they are absolutely 
ravenous. 
Meares has very dry feet. Whilst we others perspire 
freely and our skin remains pink and soft his gets horny 
and scaly. He amused us greatly to-night by scraping 
them. The sound suggested the whittling of a hard wood 
block and the action was curiously like an attempt to 
shape the feet to fit the finnesko ! 
Summary of Marches made on the Depot Journey 
Distances in Geographical Miles. Variation 152 E. 
m. yds. 
Safety No. 3 to 4 E. 4 2000 
|S. 64 E. 4 500 1 
4 to 5 jS, 77 E. 1 312 -9-359 
IS. 60 E. 3 1575, 
5 to 6 S. 48 E. 10 270 Var. 149^ E. 
* The party had made a short cut where in going out with the 
ponies they had made an elbow, and so had passed within this 
' danger line.' 
