I have also been discussing and writing about the provisions of animals to be brought down in the _Terra Nova_ next year.
The wind is very persistent from the S.S.E., rising and falling; to-night it has sprung up again, and is rattling the canvas of the tent.
Some of the ponies are not turning out so well as I expected; they are slow walkers and must inevitably impede the faster ones.

Two of the best had been told off for Campbell by Oates, but I must alter the arrangement.

'Then I am not quite sure they are going to stand the cold well, and on this first journey they may have to face pretty severe conditions.

Then, of course, there is the danger of losing them on thin ice or by injury sustained in rough places.

Although we have fifteen now (two having gone for the Eastern Party) it is not at all certain that we shall have such a number when the main journey is undertaken next season.