The Voyages of Captain Scott

The Voyages of Captain Scott

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THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN SCOTT
BY CHARLES TURLEY

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE VOYAGE OF THE 'DISCOVERY'
Chapter I
. The 'Discovery'. II. Southward Ho! III. In Search of Winter Quarters.
IV. The Polar Winter. V. The Start of the Southern Journey. VI. The
Return. VII. A Second Winter. VIII. The Western Journey. IX. The
Return from the West. X. Release.
THE LAST EXPEDITION
Chapter Preface
to 'Scott's Last Expedition'. Biographical Note. British Antarctic
Expedition, 1910. I. Through Stormy Seas. II. Depôt Laying to One
Ton Camp. III. Perils. IV. A Happy Family. V. Winter. VI. Good-bye
to Cape Evans. VII. The Southern Journey Begins. VIII. On the
Beardmore Glacier. IX. The South Pole. X. On the Homeward Journey.
XI. The Last March. Search Party Discovers the Tent. In Memoriam.
Farewell Letters. Message to the Public. Index.

ILLUSTRATIONS
PHOTOGRAVURE PLATE
Portrait of Captain Robert F. Scott From a photograph by J. Russell &
Son, Southsea.
COLORED PLATES

From Water-Color Drawings by Dr. Edward A. Wilson.
Sledding. Mount Erebus. Lunar Corona. 'Birdie' Bowers reading the
thermometer on the ramp.
DOUBLE PAGE PLATE
Panorama at Cape Evans. Berg in South Bay.
FULL PAGE PLATES
Robert F. Scott at the age of thirteen as a naval cadet. The 'Discovery'.
Looking up the gateway from Pony Depôt. Pinnacled ice at mouth of
Ferrar Glacier. Pressure ridges north side of Discovery Bluff. The
'Terra Nova' leaving the Antarctic. Pony Camp on the barrier.
Snowed-up tent after three days' blizzard. Pitching the double tent on
the summit. Adélie Penguin on nest. Emperor Penguins on sea-ice. Dog
party starting from Hut Point. Dog lines. Looking up the gateway from
Pony Depôt. Looking south from Lower Glacier Depôt, Man hauling
camp, 87th parallel. The party at the South Pole. 'The Last Rest'.
Facsimile of the last words of Captain Scott's Journal.
Track chart of main southern journey.

INTRODUCTION
BY SIR J. M. BARRIE, BART.
On the night of my original meeting with Scott he was but lately home
from his first adventure into the Antarctic and my chief recollection of
the occasion is that having found the entrancing man I was unable to
leave him. In vain he escorted me through the streets of London to my
home, for when he had said good-night I then escorted him to his, and
so it went on I know not for how long through the small hours. Our talk
was largely a comparison of the life of action (which he pooh-poohed)
with the loathsome life of those who sit at home (which I scorned); but
I also remember that he assured me he was of Scots extraction. As the
subject never seems to have been resumed between us, I afterwards
wondered whether I had drawn this from him with a promise that, if his
reply was satisfactory, I would let him go to bed. However, the family
traditions (they are nothing more) do bring him from across the border.
According to them his great-great-grandfather was the Scott of
Brownhead whose estates were sequestered after the '45. His dwelling
was razed to the ground and he fled with his wife, to whom after some
grim privations a son was born in a fisherman's hut on September 14,

1745. This son eventually settled in Devon, where he prospered, for it
was in the beautiful house of Oatlands that he died. He had four sons,
all in the Royal Navy, of whom the eldest had as youngest child