4+6 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
absence helping the machines, I have decided to start on 
Wednesday instead of to-morrow. If the blizzard should 
blow out, Atkinson and Keohane will set off to-morrow 
for Hut Point, so that we may see how far Jehu is to be 
counted on. 
Tuesday, October 31. — The blizzard has blown itself 
out this morning, and this afternoon it has cleared ; the 
sun is shining and the wind dropping. Meares and 
Ponting are just off to Hut Point. Atkinson and Keohane 
will probably leave in an hour or so as arranged, and if 
the weather holds, we shall all get off to-morrow. So here 
end the entries in this diary with the first chapter of our 
History. The future is in the lap of the gods ; I can 
think of nothing left undone to deserve success. 
