TO THE SOUTH POLE 
CAPTAIN SCOTT S 
OWN STORY 
TOLD FROM HIS JOURNALS 
Photographs hy HERBERT G. PONTING, F.R.G.S., Camera Artist 
to tke Expedition, except where otherwise indicated. 
These articles 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 III. 
Heading Straight for the Pole. 
HUS early the ponies had to 
receive their full loads from 
these motor - sledges. But 
“ with their full loads the 
ponies did splendidly ; even 
Jehu and Chinaman, with 
loads over four hundred and 
fifty pounds, stepped out well, and have 
finished as fit as when they started. 
“ The better ponies made nothing of their 
loads, and my own Snippets had over seven 
hundred pounds, sledge included. Of course, 
the surface is greatly improved ; it is that 
over which we came well last year. We are 
all much cheered by this performance. It 
shows a hardening up of the ponies, which 
have been well trained ; even Oates is 
pleased ! ” 
Now also befell the first, of the bad weather. 
“As we came to camp a blizzard threatened 
and we built snow walls. The ponies seem 
very comfortable. Their new rugs cover 
them well and the sheltering walls are as high 
as the animals, so that the wind is practically 
unfelt behind them. This protection is a 
direct result of our experience of last year, and 
it is good to feel that we reaped some reward 
for that disastrous journey. I am writing 
late in the day and the wind is still strong. 
I fear we shall not be able to go on to-night. 
Vol xlvi. — 31. Copyright, 1913, by “ Everybody’s Magazine,” in the United States of America. 
