[Scott’s Last Expedition Volume I by Captain R. F. Scott]@TWC D-Link bookScott’s Last Expedition Volume I CHAPTER II 35/97
The wash of water sweeps the Euphausia [3] across such submerged ice.
The Antarctic petrel has a pretty crouching attitude. Notes On Nicknames Evans Teddy Wilson Bill, Uncle Bill, Uncle Simpson Sunny Jim Ponting Ponco Meares Day Campbell The Mate, Mr.Mate Pennell Penelope Rennick Parnie Bowers Birdie Taylor Griff and Keir Hardy Nelson Marie and Bronte Gran Cherry-Garrard Cherry Wright Silas, Toronto Priestley Raymond Debenham Deb Bruce Drake Francis Atkinson Jane, Helmin, Atchison Oates Titus, Soldier, 'Farmer Hayseed' (by Bowers) Levick Toffarino, the Old Sport Lillie Lithley, Hercules, Lithi_6_ _Tuesday, December_ 20 .-- Noon 68 deg.
41' S., 179 deg.
28' W.Made good S.36 W.58; C.Crozier S.20 W.563' .-- The good conditions held up to midnight last night; we went from lead to lead with only occasional small difficulties.
At 9 o'clock we passed along the western edge of a big stream of very heavy bay ice--such ice as would come out late in the season from the inner reaches and bays of Victoria Sound, where the snows drift deeply.
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