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CONTENTS
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THE SECOND VOLUME
Mr. Cherry-Garrard's Diary—Brushing down the Tent—The Barrier Edge—Ice Waves of the Barrier—Bowers' Meteorological Record—Remarkable Aurora—Clothes Frozen Hard—Lowest Temperature Recorded—Between Mt. Terror and Pressure Ridges—Absence of Tide Crack—Revised Rations—Approaching the Knoll—Site of the Hut—Building the Hut—High Winds—Among the Pressure Ridges—The Hut Roofed in—Through Hole and Gully—At the Emperor Rookery—The Penguins' Eggs—Night in the Igloo—The Tent Blown Away—The Stove Fails—The Roof Goes—Recovery of the Tent—Unsheltered in the Storm—Little Gear Lost—Personal Sufferings—Pressures and Crevasses Again—The Sense of Destiny—Past Terror Point—The 'Barrier Shudder'—Clearer Surface and Warmer Marching—Hut Point Again—Back at Cape Evans—State of the Sleeping-Bags—Daily Routine—The Hardest Journey on Record |
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Instructions—King Edward’s Land—Balloon Bight Gone—Towards Cape Adare—Robertson Bay—A Penguin Showman—Meat Stores—Kayaks Built—Hut Routine—A New Alarm Clock—Sledging Round Robertson Bay—A Fierce Storm—Expedition Preparing—Dangers of Siren Bay—Examining the Coast—Sealing—Towards Mt. Melbourne—On the Boomerang Glacier—On the Melbourne Glacier—To Corner Glacier—Fossils—Evans Coves—First Impressions of Blubber—Need of Better Shelter—Ancient Seaweed—Fresh Fish—An Improvised Stove—Hunger and Supplies—Readings and Lectures—Choked by the Snow—The 'Complex' Stove Fails—The Larder Threatened—Accident |