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and sledging out to Corner Camp and the man-hauling, with Lashly, 
across the Barrier after the breakdown of the motors, had been 
successfully accomplished ; this sequel to the Glacier and Summit 
marches was an unexpected blow. 
Withal, he continued to pull, while bearing the heavy strain of 
guiding the course. While the hauling power thus grew less, the 
leader had to make up for loss of speed by lengthening the working 
hours. He put his watch on an hour. With the ' turning out ' signal 
thus advanced, the actual marching period reached 12 hours. The 
situation was saved, and Evans flattered himself on his ingenuity. 
But the men knew it all the time, and no word said ! 
At One Ton Camp he was unable to stand without the support of 
his ski sticks ; but with the help of his companions struggled on 
another 53 miles in four days. Then he could go no farther. His 
companions, rejecting his suggestion that he be left in his sleeping- 
bag with a supply of provisions while they pressed on for help, * cached ' 
everything that could be spared, and pulled him on the sledge with 
a devotion matching that of their captain years before, when he and 
Wilson brought their companion Shackleton, ill and helpless, safely 
home to the Discovery. Four days of this pulling, with a southerly 
wind to help, brought them to Corner Camp ; then came a heavy 
snowfall : the sledge could not travel. It was a critical moment. 
Next day Crean set out to tramp alone to Hut Point, 34 miles away. 
Lashly stayed to nurse Lieut. Evans, and most certainly saved his 
life till help came. Crean reached Hut Point after an exhausting 
march of 18 hours ; how the dog-team went to the rescue is told by 
Dr. Atkinson in the second volume. At the Discovery hut Evans was 
unremittingly tended by Dr. Atkinson, and finally sent by sledge 
to the Terra Nova. It is good to record that both Lashly and 
Crean have received the Albert medal. 
Note 25, p. 574. — At this point begins the last of Scott's notebooks. 
The record of the Southern Journey is written in pencil in three slim 
MS. books, some 8 inches long by 5 wide. These little volumes arc 
meant for artists' notebooks, and are made of tough, soft, pliable 
paper wluch takes the pencil well. The pages, 96 in number, arc 
perforated so as to be detachable at need. 
In the Hut, large quarto MS. books were used for the journals, and 
some of the rough notes of the earlier expeditions were recast and 
written out again in them ; the little books were carried on the sledge 
journeys, and contain the day's notes entered very regularly at the 
lunch halts and in the night camps. But in the last weeks of the 
Southern Journey, when fuel and light ran short and all grew very 
weary, it will be seen that Scott made his entries at lunch time alone. 
They tell not of the morning's run only, but of 1 yesterday.' 
The notes were written on the right-hand pages, and when the end 
of the book was reached, it was * turned ' and the blank backs of the 
leaves now became clean right-hand pages. The first two MS. books 
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