294 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [May 
after lunch to ' Land's End.' The surface of snow was 
sticky for ski, except where drifts were deep. There was 
an oppressive feel in the air and I got very hot, coming 
in with head and hands bare. 
At 5, from dead calm the wind suddenly sprang up from 
the south, force 40 miles per hour, and since that it has been 
blowing a blizzard ; wind very gusty, from 20 to 60 miles. 
I have never known a storm come on so suddenly, and it 
shows what possibility there is of individuals becoming 
lost even if they only go a short way from the hut. 
To-night Wilson has given us a very interesting lecture 
on sketching. He started by explaining his methods of 
rough sketch and written colour record, and explained 
its suitability to this climate as opposed to coloured chalks, 
&c. — a very practical method for cold fingers and one that 
becomes more accurate with practice in observation. His 
theme then became the extreme importance of accuracy, 
his mode of expression and explanation frankly Rus- 
kinesque. Don't put in meaningless lines — every line 
should be from observation. So with contrast of light 
and shade — fine shading, subtle distinction, everything 
— impossible without care, patience, and trained 
attention. 
He raised a smile by generalising failures in sketches 
of others of our party which had been brought to him for 
criticism. He pointed out how much had been put in 
from preconceived notion. 4 He will draw a berg faithfully 
as it is now and he studies it, but he leaves sea and sky 
to be put in afterwards, as he thinks they must be like 
sea and sky everywhere else, and he is content to try and 
