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bogged. On foot one sinks to the knees, and, 
if pulling on a sledge, to half-way between 
knee and thigh. It would, therefore, be 
absolutely impossible to advance on foot 
with our loads. Considering all things, we 
are getting better on ski. 
their shoes into our tent this morning, and 
P.O. Evans put them into shape again.” 
December 13th. They only made four 
miles. There was a new crust in patches j 
when the pullers got on these they slipped 
back. The sledges plunged into the soft 
the, deep track of a sledge crossing that of a penguin. 
THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS A GOOD INSTANCE OF THE WAY IN WHICH APPARENTLY UNPROMISING MATERIAL 
MAY YIELD THE MOST STRIKING RESULTS. 
“ We are about five or five and a half days 
behind Shackleton as a result of the storm, 
but on this surface our sledges could not be 
more heavily laden than they are. Evans’s 
party kept up much better to-day; we had 
places and stopped dead. One party helped 
another at such stops till the double work 
proved altogether too much. Scott’s party, 
the most efficient of the three that day, 
spent three hours fitting the ten-foot runners 
