APPENDIX 
627 
Name of Tent. 
Party to which attached. 
School presenting Tent. 
Castleford 
Hailcy 
Uxbridgc 
Slubbington 
Reserve, Cape 
Evans 
Do. 
Northern Party 
Reserve, Cape 
Evans 
Castleford Secon- 
dary School. 
Hailcy. 
Uxbridge County 
School. 
Stubbington I louse, 
Far eh am. 
Note 19, p. 311. — These hints on Polar Surveying fell on willing 
cars. Members of the afterguard who were not mathematically 
trained plunged into the very practical study of how to work 
out observations. Writing home on October 26, 191 1, Scott remarks : 
' 11 Cherry " has just come to mc with a very anxious face to say 
that I must not count on his navigating powers. For the moment I 
didn't know what lie was driving at, but then I remembered that 
some months ago I said that it would be a good thing for all the officers 
going South to have some knowledge of navigation so that in emergency 
they would know how to steer a sledge home. It appears that " Cherry " 
thereupon commenced a serious and arduous course of study of abstruse 
navigational problems which he found exceedingly tough and now 
despaired mastering. Of course there is not one chance in a hundred 
that he will ever have to consider navigation on our journey and in that 
one chance the problem must l>e of the simplest nature, but it makes 
matters much easier for mc to have men who take the details of one's 
work so seriously and who strive so simply and honestly to make it * 
successful.' 
And in Wilson's diary for October 23 comes the entry : 1 Working 
at latitude sights — mathematics which I hate — till bedtime. It will be 
wiser to know a little navigation on the Southern sledge journey.' 
Note 20, p. 436. — Happily I had a biscuit with mc and I held it out 
to him a long way off. Luckily he spotted it and allowed mc to come 
up, and I got hold of his head again. [Dr. Wilson's Journal.] 
Note 21, />. 401. — December 8. I have kept Nobby all my biscuits 
to-night as he is to try and do a march to-morrow, and then happily he 
will be shot and all of them, as their food is quite done. 
December 9. Nobby had all my biscuits last night and this morning, 
and by the time we camped I was just ravenously hungry. It was a 
close cloudy day with no air and we were ploughing along knee deep. 
. . . Thank God the horses are now all done with and we begin the 
heavy work ourselves. [Dr. Wilson's Journal.] 
Note 22, p. 492. — December 9. The end of the Bcardmorc Glacier 
curved across the track of the Southern Party, thrusting itself into the 
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