TO THE SOUTH POLE 
CAPTAIN SCOTTS 
OWN STORY 
TOLD FROM HIS JOURNALS 
The Photographs of the doomed explorers in the following pages were taken hy 
Lieut. Bowers and Dr. Wilson, and the others hy members of the Search Party. 
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 IV. 
Varied Fortunes. 
N the afternoon march we 
came on a surface covered 
with loose, sand) 7 snow, and 
the pulling became very 
heavy. We managed to get 
off twelve and a half miles 
(geographical) by 7 p.m., but 
it was very heavy work. 
“In the afternoon the wind died away, 
and to-night it is flat calm. The sun so warm 
that, in spite of the temperature, we can 
stand about outside in the greatest comfort.” 
A happy difference, this, from the con- 
ditions depicted by Shackleton. All things 
seemed to be going smoothly. Would the 
surface give trouble later ? 
Great is the contrast next day. “ A 
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dreadfully trying day ; the surface as bad 
as it could be after the first hour.” For five 
hours in the morning “ marched solidly ; and 
again in the afternoon we plugged on . . . the 
hardest we have yet done on the plateau. 
We sigh for a breeze to sweep the hard snow. 
However, we are very close to the 88th 
parallel, little more than a hundred and 
twenty miles from the Pole, only a march 
from Shackleton’s final camp, and in a general 
way ‘ getting on.’ 
“ We go a little over a mile and a quarter 
an hour now— it is a big strain as the shadows 
creep slowly round from our right through 
ahead to our left.” 
With the exception of one fair and promis- 
ing day, the 9th, following a blizzard, the 
next spell of ten days till the 15th is a con- 
tinuous record of stubborn pushing on against 
Copyright, 1913, by “ Everybody’s Magazine,” in the United States of America, 
