CHAPTER V.
Depot Laying To One Ton Camp _Tuesday, January_ 24 .-- People were busy in the hut all last night--we got away at 9 A.M.A boat from the _Terra Nova_ fetched the Western Party and myself as the ponies were led out of the camp.

Meares and Wilson went ahead of the ponies to test the track.

On board the ship I was taken in to see Lillie's catch of sea animals.

It was wonderful, quantities of sponges, isopods, pentapods, large shrimps, corals, &c., &c .-- but the _piece de resistance_ was the capture of several buckets full of cephalodiscus of which only seven pieces had been previously caught.

Lillie is immensely pleased, feeling that it alone repays the whole enterprise.
In the forenoon we skirted the Island, getting 30 and 40 fathoms of water north and west of Inaccessible Island.