FOOTNOTES: 

[84] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 77.

[85] Thomson.

[86] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 80.

[87] Wilson’s Journal, Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 613,
614.

[88] See Introduction, p. xxxv.

[89] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 87.

[90] The extreme south point of the island, a dozen miles farther,
on one of whose minor headlands, Hut Point, stood the
Discovery hut.

[91] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 88-90.

[92] Ibid. p. 91.

[93] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 52-93.

[94] Ibid. pp. 92-94.

[95] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 111.

    [96] Ibid. p. 94.

    [97] Ibid. p. 100.

    [98] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 230.

    [99] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 113-114.

   [100] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 94-96.

   [101] Ibid. p. 106.

   [102] My own diary.

   [103] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 111.

   [104] My own diary.

   [105] The South Pole, vol. i. p. 278.

   [106] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 128.

   [107] Ibid. p. 129.

   [108] My own diary.

   [109] See Introduction, p. xxxiv.

   [110] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 122.

   [111] Ibid. pp. 122-123.

   [112] Priestley’s diary.

   [113] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 127.

   [114] Ibid. p. 134.

   [115] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 136.

[116] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 138.

CHAPTER V

THE DEPOT JOURNEY

The dropping of the daylight in the west. 
ROBERT BROWNING.

January to March 1911

SCOTT              MEARES               CREAN
WILSON             ATKINSON             FORDE
LIEUT.  EVANS       CHERRY-GARRARD       DIMITRI
BOWERS             GRAN
OATES              KEOHANE

Imaginative friends of the thirteen men who started from Cape Evans on January 24, 1911, may have thought of them as athletes, trained for some weeks or months to endure the strains which they were to face, sleeping a good nine hours a night, eating carefully regulated meals and doing an allotted task each day under scientific control.

They would be far from the mark.  For weeks we had turned in at midnight too tired to take off our clothes, and had been lucky if we were allowed to sleep until 5 A.M.  We had eaten our meals when we could, and we had worked in the meantime just as hard as it was physically possible to do.  If we sat down on a packing-case we went to sleep.