Charles Turley

  As cold waters to a thirsty soul, 
  So is good news from a far country. 
   - PROVERBS.

In a very short time Scott discovered that the sledding resources of the ship had been used to their fullest extent during his absence, and that parties had been going and coming and ever adding to the collection of knowledge.

  Men like a man who has shown himself a pleasant companion 
  through a week's walking tour. They worship the man who, 
  over thousands of miles, for hundreds of days, through renewed 
  difficulties and efforts, has brought them without friction, 

  Path of advance! but it leads 
  A long steep journey through sunk 
  Gorges, o'er mountains in snow. 
   - M. ARNOLD.

The causes of the disaster are not due to faulty organization, but to misfortune in all risks which had to be undertaken.

1. The loss of pony transport in March 1911 obliged me to start 
   later than I had intended, and obliged the limits of stuff 
   transported to be narrowed.

  Ceaseless frost round the vast solitude 
  Bound its broad zone of stillness. 
   - SHELLEY.

                     And Thor 
  Set his shoulder hard against the stern 
  To push the ship through... 
  ...and the water gurgled in 
  And the ship floated on the waves and rock'd. 

By SIR CLEMENTS R MARKHAM, K.C.B.

  The ice was here, the ice was there, 
  The ice was all around: 
  It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, 
  Like noises in a swound. 
   - COLERIDGE.

by Charles Turley