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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION
SETTLING IN PLACE
Loss of a Motor—A Dog Dies—Result of Six Days' Work—Restive Ponies—An Ice Cave—Loading Ballast—Pony Prospects—First Trip to Hut Point—Return: Prospects of Sea Ice—A Secure Berth—The Hut—Home Fittings and Autumn Plans—The Pianola—Seal Rissoles—The Ship Stranded—Ice begins to go |
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DEPÔT LAYING TO ONE TON CAMP
Dogs and Ponies at Work—Stores for Depôts—Old Stores at Discovery Hut—To Encourage the Pony—Depôt Plans—Pony Snow-shoes—Impressions on the March—Further Impressions—Sledging Necessities and Luxuries—A Better Surface—Chaos Without; Comfort Within—After the Blizzard—Marching Routine—The Weakest Ponies Return—Bowers and Cherry-Garrard—Snow Crusts and Blizzards—A Resented Frost-bite—One Ton Camp |
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ADVENTURE AND PERIL
Dogs' and Ponies' Ways—The Dogs in a Crevasse—Rescue Work—Chances of a Snow Bridge—The Dog Rations—A Startling Mail—Cross the Other Party—The End of 'Weary Willy'—The Ice Breaks—The Ponies on the Floe—Safely Back |
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AT DISCOVERY HUT
Fitting up the Old Hut—A Possible Land Route—The Geological Party Arrives—Clothing—Exceptional Gales—Geology at Hut Point—An Ice Foot Exposed—Stabling at Hut Point—Waiting for the Ice—A Clear Day—Pancake Ice—Life at Hut Point—From Hut Point to Cape Evans—A Blizzard on the Sea Ice—Dates of the Sea Freezing |
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HOME IMPRESSIONS AND AN EXCURSION
Baseless Fears about the Hut—The Death of 'Hackenschmidt'—The Dark Room—The Biologists' Cubicle—An Artificer Cook—A Satisfactory Organisation—Up an Ice Face—An Icy Run—On Getting Hot |
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