4 l8 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [October 
mc in close touch with him and I realise what a very good 
fellow he is ; no pains are too great for him to take to 
help and instruct others, whilst his enthusiasm for his 
own work is unlimited. 
His results are wonderfully good, and if he is able to 
carry out the whole of his programme, we shall have a 
cinematograph and photographic record which will be 
absolutely new in expeditionary work. 
A very serious bit of news to-day. Atkinson says that 
Jehu is still too weak to pull a load. The pony was 
bad on the ship and almost died after swimming ashore 
from the ship — he was one of the ponies returned by 
Campbell. He has been improving the whole of the 
winter and Oates has been surprised at the apparent 
recovery; he looks well and feeds well, though a very 
weedily built animal compared with the others. I had 
not expected him to last long, but it will be a bad blow 
if he fails at the start. Fm afraid there is much pony 
trouble in store for us. 
Oates is having great trouble with Christopher, who 
didn't at all appreciate being harnessed on Sunday, 
and again to-day he broke away and galloped off over 
the floe. 
On such occasions Oates trudges manfully after him, 
rounds him up to within a few hundred yards of the 
stable and approaches cautiously ; the animal looks at 
him for a minute or two and canters off over the floe 
again. When Christopher and indeed both of them have 
had enough of the game, the pony calmly stops at the 
stable door. If not too late he is then put into the sledge, 
