The worst journey in the world, Antarctic, 1910-1913 . tremendous jour-ney they had already experienced. Except for the blizzardat the bottom of the Beardmore and the surfaces near thePole it had been little worse than they expected. Evans,however, who was considered by Scott to be the strongestman of the party, had already collapsed, and it is admittedthat the rest of the party was becoming far from seems to be an unknown factor here somewhere. Wilsons diary continues : February 15. 13I m. got on ski again first time since damaging my leg andwas on them all day for 9 hours
The worst journey in the world, Antarctic, 1910-1913 . tremendous jour-ney they had already experienced. Except for the blizzardat the bottom of the Beardmore and the surfaces near thePole it had been little worse than they expected. Evans,however, who was considered by Scott to be the strongestman of the party, had already collapsed, and it is admittedthat the rest of the party was becoming far from seems to be an unknown factor here somewhere. Wilsons diary continues : February 15. 13I m. got on ski again first time since damaging my leg andwas on them all day for 9 hours. It was a bit painful andswelled by the evening, and every night I put on snowpoultice. We are not yet abreast of Mt. Kyffin, and muchdiscussion how far we are from the Lower Glacier Depot,probably 18 to 20 m. : and we have to reduce food again,only one biscuit to-night with a thin hoosh of we have to make one days food which remains 1 Scotis Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. S70-571. ci * ? ,- (. - ^> .«^ -^ji^tfefe*. .SS? J& r^ « ^^P H\ » /# -ST 0 > r^ f\- THE POLAR JOURNEY 525 last over the two. The weather became heavily overcastduring the afternoon and then began to snow, and thoughwe got in our 4 hours march it was with difficulty, and weonly made a bit over 5 miles. However, we are nearer thedepot to-night. February 16. \l\ m. geog. Got a good start in fairweather after one biscuit and a thin breakfast, and made 7^m. in the forenoon. Again the weather became overcastand we lunched almost at our old bearing on Kyffin oflunch Dec. 15. All the afternoon the weather became thickand thicker and after 3 J hours Evans collapsed, sick andgiddy, and unable to walk even by the sledge on ski, so wecamped. Can see no land at all anywhere, but we must begetting pretty near the Pillar Rock. Evans collapse hasmuch to do with the fact that he has never been sick in hislife and is now helpless with his hands frost-bitten. Wehad thin meals for lunch and supper. Feb
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