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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [Jukb 
Features 
The magnetometer . . Horizontal force measured 
in two directions — vertical 
force in one — timing ar- 
rangement. 
The high and low potential Spotting arrangement and 
apparatus of the balloon difference, see ante. 
thermograph 
Simpson is admirable as a worker, admirable as a 
scientist, and admirable as a lecturer. 
Sunday, June 4. — A calm and beautiful day. The 
account of this, a typical Sunday, would run as follows : 
Breakfast. A half-hour or so selecting hymns and pre- 
paring for Service whilst the hut is being cleared up. The 
Service : a hymn ; Morning Prayer to the Psalms; another 
hymn ; prayers from Communion Service and Litany ; a 
final hymn and our special prayer. Wilson strikes the 
note on which the hymn is to start and I try to hit it 
after with doubtful success ! After church the men go 
out with their ponies. 
To-day Wilson, Bowers, Cherry-Garrard, Lashly, and 
I went to start the building of our first * igloo.' There 
is a good deal of difference of opinion as to the best 
implement with which to cut snow blocks. Cherry- 
Garrard had a knife which I designed and Lashly 
made, Wilson a saw, and Bowers a large trowel. I'm 
inclined to think the knife will prove most effective, but 
the others don't acknowledge it yet. As far as one can 
see at present this knife should have a longer handle and 
