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Campbell Lieutenant, R.N.
(Emergency List). Henry R. Bowers Lieutenant, R.N. Lawrence E. G.
Oates Captain 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. G. Murray Levick Surgeon,
R.N. Edward L. Atkinson Surgeon, R.N., Parasitologist.
Scientific Staff
Edward Adrian Wilson M.A., M.B., Chief of the Scientific Staff, and
Zoologist. George C. Simpson D.Sc., Meteorologist. T. Griffith Taylor
B.A., B.Sc., B.E., Geologist. Edward W. Nelson Biologist. Frank
Debenham B.A., B.Sc., Geologist. Charles S. Wright B.A., Physicist.
Raymond E. Priestley Geologist. Herbert G. Ponting F.R.G.S., Camera
Artist. Cecil H. Meares In Charge of Dogs. Bernard C. Day Motor
Engineer. Apsley Cherry-Garrard B.A., Asst. Zoologist. Tryggve Gran
Sub-Lieutenant, Norwegian N.R., Ski Expert.
Men
W. Lashly Chief Stoker. W. W. Archer Chief Steward. Thomas
Clissold Cook, late R.N. Edgar Evans Petty Officer, R.N. Robert Forde
Petty Officer, R.N. Thomas Crean Petty Officer, R.N. Thomas S.
Williamson Petty Officer, R.N. Patrick Keohane Petty Officer, R.N.
George P. Abbott Petty Officer, R.N. Frank V. Browning Petty Officer,
2nd Class, R.N. Harry Dickason Able Seaman, R.N. F. J. Hooper
Steward, late R.N. Anton Omelchenko Groom. Demetri Gerof Dog
Driver.
Ship's Party
Officers, &c.
Harry L. L. Pennell Lieutenant, R.N. Henry E. de P. Rennick
Lieutenant, R.N. Wilfred M. Bruce Lieutenant, R.N.R. Francis R. H.
Drake Asst. Paymaster, R.N. (Retired), Secretary & Meteorologist in
Ship. Dennis G. Lillie M.A., Biologist in Ship. James R. Denniston In
Charge of Mules in Ship. Alfred B. Cheetham R.N.R., Boatswain.
William Williams, O.N. Chief Engine-room Artificer, R.N., Engineer.
William A. Horton, O.N. Eng. Rm. Art., 3rd Cl., R.N., 2nd Engr.
Francis E. C. Davies, O.N. Shipwright, R.N., Carpenter. Frederick
Parsons Petty Officer, R.N. William L. Heald Late P.O., R.N. Arthur S.

Bailey Petty Officer, 2nd Class, R.N. Albert Balson Leading Seaman,
R.N. Joseph Leese, O.N. Able Seaman, R.N. John Hugh Mather, O.N.
Petty Officer, R.N.V.R. Robert Oliphant Able Seaman. Thomas F.
McLeon ,, ,, Mortimer McCarthy ,, ,, William Knowles ,, ,, Charles
Williams ,, ,, James Skelton ,, ,, William McDonald ,, ,, James Paton ,, ,,
Robert Brissenden Leading Stoker, R.N. Edward A. McKenzie ,, ,, ,,
William Burton Leading Stoker, R.N. Bernard J. Stone ,, ,, ,, Angus
McDonald Fireman. Thomas McGillon ,, Charles Lammas ,, W. H.
Neale Steward.
GLOSSARY
Barrier. The immense sheet of ice, over 400 miles wide and of still
greater length, which lies south of Ross Island to the west of Victoria
Land. Brash. Small ice fragments from a floe that is breaking up. Drift.
Snow swept from the ground like dust and driven before the wind.
Finnesko. Fur boots. _Flense, flence_. To cut the blubber from a skin or
carcase. Frost smoke. A mist of water vapour above the open leads,
condensed by the severe cold. Hoosh. A thick camp soup with a basis
of pemmican. _Ice-foot_. Properly the low fringe of ice formed about
Polar lands by the sea spray. More widely, the banks of ice of varying
height which skirt many parts of the Antarctic shores. Piedmont.
Coastwise stretches of the ancient ice sheet which once covered the
Antarctic Continent, remaining either on the land, or wholly or partially
afloat. Pram. A Norwegian skiff, with a spoon bow. Primus. A portable
stove for cooking. Ramp. A great embankment of morainic material
with ice beneath, once part of the glacier, on the lowest slopes of
Erebus at the landward end of C. Evans. Saennegras. A kind of fine
Norwegian hay, used as packing in the finnesko to keep the feet warm
and to make the fur boot fit firmly. Sastrugus. An irregularity formed
by the wind on a snowplain. 'Snow wave' is not completely descriptive,
as the sastrugus has often a fantastic shape unlike the ordinary
conception of a wave. Skua. A large gull. Working crack. An open
crack which leaves the ice free to move with the movement of the water
beneath.

NOTE.
Passages enclosed in inverted commas are taken from home letters of

Captain Scott.
A number following a word in the text refers to a corresponding note in
the Appendix to this volume.

SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION

CHAPTER I
Through Stormy Seas
The Final Preparations in New Zealand
The first three weeks of November have gone with such a rush that I
have neglected my diary and can only patch it up from memory.
The dates seem unimportant, but throughout the period the officers and
men of the ship have been unremittingly busy.
On arrival the ship was cleared of all the shore party stores, including
huts, sledges, &c. Within five days she was in dock. Bowers attacked
the ship's stores, surveyed, relisted, and restowed them, saving very
much space by unstowing numerous cases and stowing the contents in
the lazarette. Meanwhile our good friend Miller attacked the leak and
traced it to the stern. We found the false stem split, and in one case