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Depôt by a blizzard, Demetri's condition causing Cherry Garrard great alarm.

On March 16, after a night of blizzard, they started at 8 a.m. They reached Hut Point late in the afternoon, meeting there Petty Officer Keohane and myself. Both men were in exceedingly poor condition, Cherry-Garrard's state causing me serious alarm. The dogs were frostbitten, and miserably thin, while in many cases their harnesses were iced up and frozen to them. They were quite unfit for any further work that season.

Cherry-Garrard under the circumstances and according to his instructions was in my judgment quite right in everything that he did. I am absolutely certain no other officer of the Expedition could have done better.

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