CHAPTER VII 
AT DISCOVERY HUT 
Monday, March 6, a.m. — Roused the hands at 7.30. 
Wilson, Bowers, Garrard, and I went out to Castle Rock. 
We met Evans just short of his camp and found the loads 
had been dragged up the hill. Oates and Keohane had 
gone back to lead on the ponies. At the top of the ridge 
we harnessed men and ponies to the sledges and made 
rapid progress on a good surface towards the hut. The 
weather grew very thick towards the end of the march, 
with all signs of a blizzard. We unharnessed the ponies 
at the top of Ski slope — Wilson guided them down from 
rock patch to rock patch ; the remainder of us got down 
a sledge and necessaries over the slope. It is a ticklish 
business to get the sledge along the ice foot, which is 
now all blue ice ending in a drop to the sea. One has 
to be certain that the party has good foothold. All 
reached the hut in safety. The ponies have admirably 
comfortable quarters under the verandah. 
After some cocoa we fetched in the rest of the dogs 
from the Gap and another sledge from the hill. It had 
ceased to snow and the wind had gone down slightly. 
