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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [April 
well cover the floor of one wing of the L-shaped enclosure, 
four sleep in the other wing, which also holds the store, 
whilst the remaining five occupy the annexe and affect to 
find the colder temperature more salubrious. Everyone 
can manage eight or nine hours' sleep without a break, and 
not a few would have little difficulty in sleeping the clock 
round, which goes to show that our extremely simple 
life is an exceedingly healthy one, though with faces and 
hands blackened with smoke, appearances might not lead 
an outsider to suppose it. 
Sunday, April 9, a.m. — On Friday night it grew over- 
cast and the wind went to the south. During the whole 
of yesterday and last night it blew a moderate blizzard — 
the temperature at highest + 5 0 , a relatively small amount 
of drift. On Friday night the ice in the Strait went out 
from a line meeting the shore J mile north of Hut Point. 
A crack off Hut Point and curving to N.W. opened to 
about 15 or 20 feet, the opening continuing on the north 
side of the Point. It is strange that the ice thus opened 
should have remained. 
Ice cleared out to the north directly wind commenced — 
it didn't wait a single instant, showing that our journey 
over it earlier in the day was a very risky proceeding — 
the uncertainty of these conditions is beyond words, 
but there shall be no more of this foolish venturing on 
young ice. This decision seems to put off the return of 
the ponies to a comparatively late date. 
Yesterday went to the second crater, Arrival Heights, 
hoping to see the condition of the northerly bays, but 
