CHAPTER XII 
AWAITING THE CROZIER PARTY 
Friday, June 23 — Saturday, June 24. — Two quiet, un- 
eventful days and a complete return to routine. 
Sunday, June 25. — I find I have made no mention of 
Cherry-Garrard's first number of the revived South Polar 
Times, presented to me on Midwinter Day. 
It is a very good little volume, bound by Day in a 
really charming cover of carved vencsta wood and seal- 
skin. The contributors are anonymous, but I have suc- 
ceeded in guessing the identity of the greater number. 
The Editor has taken a statistical paper of my own 
on the plans for the Southern Journey and a well-written 
serious article on the Geological History of our region by 
Taylor. Except for editorial and meteorological notes 
the rest is conceived in the lighter vein. The verse is 
mediocre except perhaps for a quaint play of words in an 
amusing little skit on the sleeping-bag argument ; but an 
article entitled 6 Valhalla 1 appears to me to be altogether 
on a different level. It purports to describe the arrival 
of some of our party at the gates proverbially guarded 
by St. Peter ; the humour is really delicious and nowhere 
at all forced. In the jokes of a small community it is rare 
