THE LAST MARCH Snow Like Desert Sand--A Gloomy Prospect--No Help from the Wind--The Grip of Cold--Three Blows of Misfortune--From Bad to Worse--A Sick Comrade--Oates' Case Hopeless--The Death of Oates--Scott Frostbitten--The Last Camp--Farewell Letters--The Last Message.

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419 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE FIRST VOLUME Photogravure Plates Portrait of Captain Robert F.Scott, R.N., C.V.O.

_Frontispiece_ From a Painting by Harrington Mann From Sketches by Dr.Edward A.Wilson A Lead in the Pack 26 On the Way to the Pole 364 'Black Flag Camp'-- Amundsen's Black Flag within a Few Miles of the South Pole 367 Amundsen's Tent at the South Pole 371 Cairn left by the Norwegians S.S.W.from Black Flag Camp and Amundsen's South Pole Mark 376 Mount Buckley, One of the Last of Many Pencil Sketches made on the Return Journey from the Pole 386 Coloured Plates From Water-colour Drawings by Dr.Edward A.Wilson The Great Ice Barrier, looking east from Cape Crozier _Facing p_.