TO THE SOUTH POLE Y 
CAPTAIN SCOTT S 
OWN STORY 
TOLD FROM HIS JOURNALS 
Photographs hy HERBERT G. PONTING, F.R.G.S., Camera Artist 
to the Expedition. 
This and the articles which are to follow are related from the journals of Captain 
Scott, and give the first connected story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. 
The story has been told from the journals by Mr. Leonard Huxley, well known as 
the biographer of his celebrated father, and carefully read and revised by Commander 
Evans, R.N. With few exceptions, all the photographs, which have been selected 
from many hundreds, are here published for the first time. 
PART II. 
At Hut Point. 
[ March 6th they took up their 
abode in the old Discovery hut 
at the south end of Ross 
Island, which had now been 
transformed from its pre- 
viously uninhabitable con- 
dition. Hut Point was their 
home for over five weeks, while they waited 
for the Sound to freeze over and afford a 
road back to the station; for inspection of 
the land from the height of Castle Rock was 
adverse. “ There is no doubt that the route 
to Cape Evans lies over the worst corner of 
Erebus. From this distance the whole 
mountain-side looks a mass of crevasses, but 
Vol. xlvi.— 17 . 
a route might be found at a level of three 
or four thousand feet.” 
This season it was a stormy spot, with 
much wind and three gales in the first fort- 
night, “ any one of which would have rendered 
the bay impossible for a ship, and therefore 
it is extraordinary that we should have 
entirely escaped such a blow when the 
Discovery was in it in 1902.” 
Trouble With the Blubber-Stove. 
One result of the wind was to make the 
blubber-stove smoke, so that “ we are all as 
black as sweeps and our various garments 
are covered with oily soot. We look a fearful 
gang of ruffians. The hut has a pungent 
Copyright, 1913, by “ Everybody’s Magazine," in the United States of America. 
