CAPTAIN SCOTT'S OWN STORY. 
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IN MEMORIAM. 
THE CROSS ERECTED ON OBSERVATION HIM. BY THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF TIIE EXPEDITION 
TO THE MEMORY OF THEIR FIVE COMPANIONS, 
From a Photograph by a member of ike search Party. 
With a northerly wind blowing in their faces 
and a temperature of — 40° on the 19th they 
struggled to that last camping ground, “ with 
two days’ food but barely one allowance of 
fuel ” — a mere eleven miles from plenty at 
One Ton Camp. There, the probable meeting 
time having been calculated from the speed 
of the former return parties, Cherry-Garrard 
and Demetri and the dog teams had been 
waiting from March 4th to March 10th in 
order to convey them swiftly back to the 
base, that all might sail home in the Terra 
Nova, which had returned and must depart 
before the winter ice formed. Held up by a 
blizzard and unable to advance farther, 
Cherry-Garrard hung on till only enough 
dog-food remained to take the dogs back. 
He had come too early, and was forced 
