Excerpt: ...fairly well with our work. Once back in the Hut there was plenty to be done preparing for the Southern Journey. My particular work consisted of rating chronometers, sewing, packing, stowing, making sundials, calibrating instruments, and preparing little charts which could be rolled up on a bamboo stick and carried in the instrument boxes of the sledges. Poor Clissold, our cook, fell off an iceberg while posing for Ponting, and was on account of his severe shaking unable to accompany the Motor party for which ...
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Excerpt: ...fairly well with our work. Once back in the Hut there was plenty to be done preparing for the Southern Journey. My particular work consisted of rating chronometers, sewing, packing, stowing, making sundials, calibrating instruments, and preparing little charts which could be rolled up on a bamboo stick and carried in the instrument boxes of the sledges. Poor Clissold, our cook, fell off an iceberg while posing for Ponting, and was on account of his severe shaking unable to accompany the Motor party for which Scott had detailed him. After dinner on October 17 Day started his motors, and amidst a perfect furore of excitement he got one motor sledge down on to the sea ice. At the ice foot, alas, one of the rear axle cases fractured badly and the car was out of action 30 yards from the garage. The other car wouldn't start. From the 18th until the 24th October, Day and Lashly were at work repairing the disabled car, and they made an excellent job of it, so that there was no delay in the starting date for the pioneer party with the motors. We got all news by telephone from Hut Point with reference to the state of the surface on the Great Ice Barrier, as Meares and Dimitri returned on October 15 from a flying journey to Corner Camp and back with depot stores. Meares's dogs on this trip covered the seventy statute miles, out and home, in thirty-six hours, including their resting time. Scott handed me my instructions on October 20, which read as follows: Instructions for Motor Party. Proceed at convenient speed to Corner Camp, thence to One Ton Camp, and thence due South to Latitude 80 1/2 degrees South. If motors successful (i) Carry forward from Corner Camp 9 bags forage, 1 bag of oilcake; but see that provision for ponies is intact, viz.: 3 sacks oats, 1 bag oilcake, 4 bags of forage. If motors pulling very well you can also take 9 cases emergency biscuit. (ii) In addition carry forward from One Ton Camp all man food and fuel in depot, viz.: 7 units...
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Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. Price clipped DJ has some shelf wear & soil with tears and chipping, corners lightly bumped. Gift notation on FFEP.; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector.; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 288 pages; This revised edition has B&W photos throughout. Mountevans was second on command on Scott's ill-fated 1910-1913 British Antarctic Expedition. Luckily due to a bout of scurvy during the expedition resulting in his removal to England to recuperate he did not suffer the fate of Scott and his party. He survived to recount the exploits, hardships and endurance, living through two Antarctic winters and the disappointment when they realized that the Norwegian, Amundsen, had made it to to the South Pole 34 days before them.
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Good in None jacket. Book Mountevans, Admiral Lord, SOUTH WITH SCOTT. London: Collins, 1952, Hard Cover, Coral boards with white letters, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, Good/ None, 284 pages. Ex-library with markings, ink mark on title page and footband. 21 pages of illustrations, lists of expedition personnel. Shelf number1861.
