At One Ton Camp he was unable to stand without the support of his ski sticks; but with the help of his companions struggled on another 53 miles in four days.  Then he could go no farther.  His companions, rejecting his suggestion that he be left in his sleeping-bag with a supply of provisions while they pressed on for help, ‘cached’ everything that could be spared, and pulled him on the sledge with a devotion matching that of their captain years before, when he and Wilson brought their companion Shackleton, ill and helpless, safely home to the Discovery.  Four days of this pulling, with a southerly wind to help, brought them to Corner Camp; then came a heavy snowfall:  the sledge could not travel.  It was a critical moment.  Next day Crean set out to tramp alone to Hut Point, 34 miles away.  Lashly stayed to nurse Lieut.  Evans, and most certainly saved his life till help came.  Crean reached Hut Point after an exhausting march of 18 hours; how the dog-team went to the rescue is told by Dr. Atkinson in the second volume.  At the Discovery hut Evans was unremittingly tended by Dr. Atkinson, and finally sent by sledge to the Terra Nova.  It is good to record that both Lashly and Crean have received the Albert medal.

Note 25, p. 396.—­At this point begins the last of Scott’s notebooks.  The record of the Southern Journey is written in pencil in three slim MS. books, some 8 inches long by 5 wide.  These little volumes are meant for artists’ notebooks, and are made of tough, soft, pliable paper which takes the pencil well.  The pages, 96 in number, are perforated so as to be detachable at need.

In the Hut, large quarto MS. books were used for the journals, and some of the rough notes of the earlier expeditions were recast and written out again in them; the little books were carried on the sledge journeys, and contain the day’s notes entered very regularly at the lunch halts and in the night camps.  But in the last weeks of the Southern Journey, when fuel and light ran short and all grew very weary, it will be seen that Scott made his entries at lunch time alone.  They tell not of the morning’s run only, but of ‘yesterday.’

The notes were written on the right-hand pages, and when the end of the book was reached, it was ‘turned’ and the blank backs of the leaves now became clean right-hand pages.  The first two MS. books are thus entirely filled:  the third has only part of its pages used and the Message to the Public is written at the reverse end.

Inside the front cover of No. 1 is a ‘ready’ table to convert the day’s run of geographical miles as recorded on the sledgemeter into statute miles, a list of the depots and their latitude, and a note of the sledgemeter reading at Corner Camp.

These are followed in the first pages by a list of the outward camps and distances run as noted in the book, with special ‘remarks’ as to cairns, latitude, and so forth.  At the end of the book is a full list of the cairns that marked the track out.