I need hardly add that the nine years’ delay in the appearance of my book was caused by the war.  Before I had recovered from the heavy overdraft made on my strength by the expedition I found myself in Flanders looking after a fleet of armoured cars.  A war is like the Antarctic in one respect.  There is no getting out of it with honour as long as you can put one foot before the other.  I came back badly invalided; and the book had to wait accordingly.

[Illustration:  FROM NEW ZEALAND TO THE SOUTH POLE—­Apsley Cherry-Garrard, del.—­Emery Walker Ltd., Collotypers.]

FOOTNOTES: 

     [1] Cook, A Voyage towards the South Pole, Introduction.

     [2] Cook, A Voyage towards the South Pole, vol. i. p. 23.

     [3] Ibid. p. 28.

     [4] Cook, A Voyage towards the South Pole, vol. i. p. 268.

     [5] Ibid. p. 275.

     [6] Scott, Voyage of the Discovery, vol. i. p. 9.

     [7] Ibid. p. 14.

     [8] Ross, Voyage to the Southern Seas, vol. i. p. 117.

     [9] Ross, Voyage to the Southern Seas, vol. i. pp. 216-218.

    [10] Ross, Voyage to the Southern Seas, vol. i. pp. 244-245.

    [11] Leonard Huxley, Life of Sir J. D. Hooker, vol. ii. p. 443.

    [12] Ibid. p. 441.

    [13] Nansen, Farthest North, vol. i. p. 52.

    [14] Nansen, Farthest North, vol. ii. pp. 19-20.

[15] Scott, Voyage of the Discovery, vol. i. p. 229.

[16] Scott, Voyage of the Discovery, vol. i. p. vii.

[17] Ibid. p. 273.

[18] See Scott, Voyage of the Discovery, vol. ii. pp. 5, 6, 490.

[19] Wilson, Nat.  Ant.  Exp., 1901-1904, “Zoology,” Part ii. pp.
8-9.

[20] Wilson, Nat.  Ant.  Exp., 1901-1904, “Zoology,” Part ii. p.
31.

[21] Scott, Voyage of the Discovery, vol. ii. p. 327.

[22] Scott, The Voyage of the Discovery, vol. ii. pp. 347-348.

[23] See pp. 128-134.

[24] See pp. xxxi-xxxii.

[25] See p. xxviii.

[26] Priestley, Antarctic Adventure, pp. 232-233.

[27] Priestley, Antarctic Adventure, pp. 236-237.

[28] Priestley, Antarctic Adventure, p. 243.

[29] Atkinson has no doubt that the symptoms of the Northern Party
were those of early scurvy.  Conditions of temperature in the
igloo allowed of decomposition occurring in seal meat.  Fresh
seal meat brought in from outside reduced the scurvy
symptoms.

[30] This tenderness of gums and tongue is additional evidence of
scurvy.

[31] Published by Fisher Unwin, 1914.

[32] Vol. ii., Narrative of the Northern Party.

[33] A. A. Milne.