[Scott’s Last Expedition Volume I by Captain R. F. Scott]@TWC D-Link bookScott’s Last Expedition Volume I CHAPTER IV 18/59
I never knew a dog get it before, but Day says that Shackleton's dogs suffered from it.
The post-mortem on last night's death revealed nothing to account for it.
Atkinson didn't examine the brain, and wonders if the cause lay there.
There is a certain satisfaction in believing that there is nothing infectious. _Wednesday, January_ ll .-- A week here to-day--it seems quite a month, so much has been crammed into a short space of time. The threatened blizzard materialised at about four o'clock this morning.
The wind increased to force six or seven at the ship, and continued to blow, with drift, throughout the forenoon. Campbell and his sledging party arrived at the Camp at 8.0 A.M.bringing a small load: there seemed little object, but I suppose they like the experience of a march in the blizzard.
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