The Worst Journey in the World (92 page)

[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.
144-146.

[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.