Even our poor animals will get rest and sleep in spite of the violent motion.

Some 4 or 5 tons of fodder and the ever watchful Anton take up the remainder of the forecastle space.

Anton is suffering badly from sea-sickness, but last night he smoked a cigar.

He smoked a little, then had an interval of evacuation, and back to his cigar whilst he rubbed his stomach and remarked to Oates 'no good'-- gallant little Anton! There are four ponies outside the forecastle and to leeward of the fore hatch, and on the whole, perhaps, with shielding tarpaulins, they have a rather better time than their comrades.

Just behind the ice-house and on either side of the main hatch are two enormous packing-cases containing motor sledges, each 16 x 5 x 4; mounted as they are several inches above the deck they take a formidable amount of space.