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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION
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to Abbott—The Igloo Coated with Snow—Diet and Disease—'Igloo Back'—Penguin Meat Better than Seal—A Tiring Start—Illness and a Gale—A Narrow Escape—Mount Erebus in Sight—Among Pressure Ridges—The Nordenskiöld Ice Tongue—Seals Found—Browning’s Condition—Renewed Strength and Health—News at Butter Point—Browning's Recovery—Arrive at Cape Evans—At Cape Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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THE WESTERN JOURNEYS
CHAPTER I
KOETTLITZ, FERRAR, AND TAYLOR GLACIERS
Comrades and Comradeship—Instructions—Equipment—Glassroof Ice—A Snowless Valley—Alcove Camp—'Lake Chad' and 'Round Valley'—'A Few Feathers in the Bed'—Sledge Literature—In Crevasses—'Browning the Boots'—The Sound of the Sea Ice—'Armadillo Camp'—'Park Lane Camp'—Seals on the Koettlitz Glacier—Compass Readings—An Eventful Lunch—In the Pinnacle Ice—At the Place of the Pony Disaster—Antarctic Changes |
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CHAPTER II
THE GEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO GRANITE HARBOUR
Instructions—Improvement in Gear—A March Through a Snowstorm—Head Gear—The Old Glacier Tongue—On Salty Snow—Sledge Routine—Rendezvous Bluff—Daily Menu—'Too Tired to Think'—Insects Discovered—'Granite House'—Gondola Mountain—Reading in a Blizzard—A Dangerous Passage—Skuas' Eggs—Amateur Doctoring—Feast Days—The 'Barrier Shudder'—Gondola Ridge—Ascent of Gondola Nunatak—A Photographic Epitome—Antarctic Gardening—Crossing a Shear Crack—Sad History of the Skuas—Recreations—Gran's Birthday—The Ship Disappears—A Compulsory March—A Saving Depôt Left—Perilous Marching—Eye Treatment—At Butter Point—Met by the Ship |
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The New Double Tent—The Cairn Buried in Snow—Marching Average |
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