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TI1E STRAND MAGAZINE. 
A VIEW OF THE DECK OF THE “TERRA NOVA, 1 ’ SHOWING THE DOGS UNDER THE CHARGE OF 
M FARES, WHO IS SEEN IN THE FOREGROUND. 
The Station at Cape Evans. 
The old winter quarters were undesirable, 
being exposed to the winds that swept the 
Barrier to the south of the island and Cape 
Crozier, as well as less accessible to a relief 
ship. Cape Crozier offered man)- advantages, 
but landing would have taken weeks. Then 
came the first good fortune of the expedition. 
An ideal spot was found half - way up 
the west coast, sheltered from the w r orst 
winds, and with a natural landing-stage in 
the shape of a level floe, one and a quarter 
miles wide, still firm and fast before the full 
summer break-up. In eight days the dis- 
embarkation was complete, the Main Hut. 
habitable, though not actually finished, the 
stores in apple-pie order, and Bowxrs, the 
organizing genius, able to lay his hand on 
anything required ; the dogs and po~ies 
refreshed, even skittish, sometimes upsetting 
their drivers and loads, and hauling load 
after load across the ice and up the beach, 
some of the party taking ten journeys in the 
day — i.e., twenty-five miles. The speed with 
which all w r as completed was the consequence 
of the previous months of care. Only one 
catastrophe marred the perfection of the 
work. The thawing of the ice proceeded 
rapidly ; one of the motors broke through a 
soft patch where all had been well a few hours 
before and went to the bottom, happily 
without loss of life. 
An Exciting Adventure With Killer- 
Whales. 
The strangest adventure w'as on the second 
day of the disembarkation. Scott, coming on 
deck a little late — for he had had a spell of 
forty-eight hours without sleep — saw' six or 
seven killer - whales (or grampus), old and 
young, skirting the fast floe edge ahead of 
the ship. They seemed excited, and dived 
rapidly, almost touching the floe. Suddenly 
