[Illustration:  WHERE EVANS DIED—­E.  A. Wilson, del.]

FOOTNOTES: 

[294] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 536.

[295] It is to be noticed that every return party, including the
Polar Party, was supposed by their companions to be going to
have a very much easier time than, as a matter of fact, they
had.—­A.  C.-G.

[296] Bowers.

[297] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 530-534.

[298] Simpson, B.A.E., 1910-1913, “Meteorology,” vol. i. p. 291.

[299] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 540.

[300] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 541-542.

[301] Simpson, B.A.E., 1910-1913, “Meteorology,” vol. i. pp.
144-146.

[302] Simpson, B.A.E., 1910-1913, “Meteorology,” vol. i. p. 41.

[303] See pp. xxxviii-xxxix.

[304] See p. xivii.

[305] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 543.

[306] Wilson.

   [307] Evidently meaning some miles from crest to crest.

   [308] Bowers, Polar Meteorological Log.

   [309] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 543-544.

   [310] Simpson, B.A.E., 1910-1913, “Meteorology,” vol. i. p. 40.

   [311] Bowers.

   [312] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 550-551.

   [313] Bowers.

   [314] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 552.

   [315] Bowers.

   [316] Wilson.

   [317] Wilson.

   [318] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 541.

   [319] Ibid. p. 549.

   [320] Wilson.

   [321] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 557.

   [322] Ibid. pp. 560, 561.

   [323] Wilson.

   [324] Ibid.

   [325] Bowers.

   [326] Wilson.

   [327] Ibid.

   [328] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 559.

   [329] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 561.

   [330] Wilson.

   [331] Ibid.

   [332] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 561.

   [333] Ibid. pp. 562, 563.

   [334] Ibid. p. 566.

   [335] Wilson.

   [336] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 567.

   [337] Wilson.

   [338] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 570-571.

   [339] Wilson.

   [340] Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 573.

CHAPTER XVIII

THE POLAR JOURNEY (continued)

This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall, ... 
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, ... 
This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land. 

                                                                                                SHAKESPEARE.