[125] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 207.

  [126] My own diary.

  [127] Bowers.

  [128] My own diary.

  [129] Bowers' letter.

  [130] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 604.

  [131] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 599, 602, 607.

  [132] Scott, Voyage of the Discovery, vol. ii. p. 53.

  [133] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 295.

  [134] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 432-433.

  [135] Ibid. p. 597.

  [136] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 362.

  [137] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 396.

  [138] With Scott: The Silver Lining, Taylor, p. 240.

  [139] F. G. Jackson, A Thousand Days in the Arctic, vol. ii. pp.

  380-381.

  [140] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 4.

  [141] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 352.

  [142] Ibid. p. 353.

  [143] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 353.

  [144] A thermometer which registered -77° at the Winter Quarters

  of H.M.S. Alert on March 4, 1876, is preserved by the Royal

  Geographical Society. I do not know whether it was screened.

  [145] My own diary.

  [146] My own diary.

  [147] My own diary.

  [148] Ibid.

  [149] See Introduction, pp. xxxix-xlv.

  [150] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. ii. p. 42.

  [151] Keats.

  [152] Bowers.

  [153] My own diary.

  [154] Bowers.

  [155] Wilson in Scott's Last Expedition, vol. ii. p. 58.

  [156] My own diary.

  [157] Wilson.

  [158] Bowers.

  [159] My own diary.

  [160] My own diary.

  [161] Ibid.

  [162] Ibid.

  [163] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 361.

  [164] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. ii. p. 293.

  [165] Ibid. pp. 291-297; written by Lieutenant Evans.

  [166] Ibid. vol. i. p. 409.

  [167] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 403.

  [168] Ibid. p. 404.

  [169] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 425.

  [170] Ibid. p. 437.

  [171] Ibid. p. 429.

  [172] Ibid. p. 438.

  [173] Taylor, with Scott, The Silver Lining, pp. 325-326.

  [174] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 448.

  [175] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 449.

  [176] Ibid. p. 446.

  [177] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 453.

  [178] Ibid. p. 452.

  [179] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 438-439.

  [180] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 450.

  [181] Bowers.

  [182] Bowers.

  [183] My own diary.

  [184] Bowers.

  [185] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 463.

  [186] Ibid. p. 462.

  [187] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 461.

  [188] Bowers.

  [189] Bowers.

  [190] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 465.

  [191] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 465.

  [192] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 468.

  [193] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 470, 471.

  [194] Bowers.

  [195] A note to Cape Evans is as follows:—MY DEAR SIMPSON. This

  goes with Day and Hooper now returning. We are making fair

  progress and the ponies doing fairly well. I hope we shall

  get through to the glacier without difficulty, but to make

  sure I am carrying the dog-teams farther than I intended at

  first—the teams may be late returning, unfit for further

  work or non-existent....—R. SCOTT.

  [196] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 474.

  [197] Ibid. p. 475.

  [198] Ibid. p. 476.

  [199] Ibid. p. 476.

  [200] Bowers.

  [201] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 483.

  [202] Bowers.

  [203] Bowers.

  [204] My own diary.

  [205] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 486.

  [206] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 486-489.

  [207] Bowers.

  [208] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 489.

  [209] My own diary.

  [210] My own diary.

  [211] Ibid.

  [212] My own diary.

  [213] My own diary.

  [214] Bowers.

  [215] Scott.

  [216] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 497.

  [217] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 499.

  [218] Bowers.

  [219] My own diary.

  [220] Ibid.

  [221] Bowers.

  [222] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 506.

  [223] My own diary.

  [224] Ibid.

  [225] Bowers.

  [226] Bowers.

  [227] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 509.

  [228] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 510.

  [229] My own diary.

  [230] My own diary.

  [231] Bowers.

  [232] My own diary.

  [233] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 511-512.

  [234] Bowers.

  [235] My own diary.

  [236] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 513.

  [237] Lashly's diary.

  [238] Lashly's diary.

  [239] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 525.

  [240] Ibid. p. 521.

  [241] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 513.

  [242] Ibid. p. 529.

  [243] My own diary, December 22, 1911.

  [244] My own diary.

  [245] My own diary.

  [246] See Introduction, pp. l, lii-lix.

  [247] My own diary.

  [248] British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, "Meteorology," by

  G. C. Simpson, vol. i. pp. 28-30.

  [249] My own diary.

  [250] My own diary.

  [251] My own diary.

  [252] As a matter of fact this was not the case.

  [253] My own diary.

  [254] My own diary.

  [255] Atkinson in Scott's Last Expedition, vol. ii. p. 309.

  [256] My own diary.

  [257] My own diary.

  [258] Ibid.

  [259] Atkinson in Scott's Last Expedition, vol. ii. p. 31.

  [260] Atkinson in Scott's Last Expedition, vol. ii. p. 314.

  [261] Atkinson's diary.

  [262] My own diary.

  [263] My own diary.

  [264] My own diary.

  [265] My own diary.

  [266] See Amundsen, The South Pole, vol. i. p. 264.

  [267] Ibid. vol. i. p. 119.

  [268] Scott, Voyage of the Discovery, vol. i. pp. 480-487.

  [269] My own diary.

  [270] My own diary.

  [271] My own diary.

  [272] Wilson's Journal, Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 616.

  [273] Ibid.

  [274] My own diary.

  [275] Wright's diary.

  [276] Wright's diary.

  [277] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 536.

  [278] It is to be noticed that every return party, including the

  Polar Party, was supposed by their companions to be going to

  have a very much easier time than, as a matter of fact, they

  had.—A. C.-G.

  [279] Bowers.

  [280] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 530-534.

  [281] Simpson, B.A.E., 1910-1913, "Meteorology," vol. i. p. 291.

  [282] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 540.

  [283] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 541-542.

  [284] Simpson, B.A.E., 1910-1913, "Meteorology," vol. i. pp.

  1
44-146.

  [285] Simpson, B.A.E., 1910-1913, "Meteorology," vol. i. p. 41.

  [286] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 543.

  [287] Wilson.

  [288] Evidently meaning some miles from crest to crest.

  [289] Bowers, Polar Meteorological Log.

  [290] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 543-544.

  [291] Simpson, B.A.E., 1910-1913, "Meteorology," vol. i. p. 40.

  [292] Bowers.

  [293] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 550-551.

  [294] Bowers.

  [295] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 552.

  [296] Bowers.

  [297] Wilson.

  [298] Wilson.

  [299] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 541.

  [300] Ibid. p. 549.

  [301] Wilson.

  [302] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 557.

  [303] Ibid. pp. 560, 561.

  [304] Wilson.

  [305] Ibid.

  [306] Bowers.

  [307] Wilson.

  [308] Ibid.

  [309] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 559.

  [310] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 561.

  [311] Wilson.

  [312] Ibid.

  [313] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 561.

  [314] Ibid. pp. 562, 563.

  [315] Ibid. p. 566.

  [316] Wilson.

  [317] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 567.

  [318] Wilson.

  [319] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 570-571.

  [320] Wilson.

  [321] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 573.

  [322] Wilson.

  [323] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 575-576.

  [324] Ibid. p. 577.

  [325] Wilson.

  [326] See note at end of Chapter XIV.

  [327] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 582, 583.

  [328] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 584-599.

  [329] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 605-607.

  [330] Scott, Voyage of the Discovery, vol. i. p. 449.

  [331] Amundsen, The South Pole, vol. ii. p. 19.

  [332] Lashly's diary records that the Second Return Party found a

  shortage of oil at the Middle Barrier Depôt.

  [333] Scott, "Message to the Public."

  [334] A full discussion of these and other Antarctic temperatures

  is to be found in the scientific reports of the British

  Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13, "Meteorology," vol. i. chap.

  ii., by G. C. Simpson.

  [335] Modern research suggests that the presence or absence of

  certain vitamines makes a difference, and it may be a very

  great difference, in the ability of any individual to profit

  by the food supplied to him. If this be so this factor must

  have had great influence upon the fate of the Polar Party,

  whose diet was seriously deficient in, if not absolutely

  free from, vitamines. The importance of this deficiency to

  the future explorer can hardly be exaggerated, and I suggest

  that no future Antarctic sledge party can ever set out to

  travel inland again without food which contains these

  vitamines. It is to be noticed that, although the Medical

  Research Council's authoritative publication on the true

  value of these accessory substances was not available when

  we went South in 1910, yet Atkinson insisted that fresh

  onions, which had been brought down by the ship, be added to

  our ration for the Search Journey. Compare recent work of

  Professor Leonard Hill on the value of ultra-violet rays in

  compensating for lack of vitamines.—A. C.-G.

  [336] Scott's Last Expedition, vol. ii. p. 356.

  [337] My own diary.

  [338] Wilson, Nat. Ant. Exp., 1901-1904, "Zoology," Part ii. pp.

  44-45.

  [339] My own diary.

  [340] Ibid.

  [341] My own diary.

  [342] My own diary.

  [343] My own diary.

  [344] Ibid.

 


 

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