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There are certain points in night marching, if only for the glorious light effects which the coming night exhibits. Wednesday, February 22. 10 P.M. Safety Camp. Turned out at 11 this morning after 4 hours' sleep. Wilson, Meares, Evans, Cherry-Garrard, and I went to Hut Point. Found a great enigma. The hut was cleared and habitable but no one was there.
When we had left Safety Camp yesterday with the dogs, the ponies began their march to follow us, but one of the ponies was so weak after the last blizzard and so obviously about to die that Bowers, Cherry-Garrard, and Crean were sent on with the four capable ponies, while Scott, Oates, and Gran remained at Safety Camp till the sick pony died, which happened apparently that night.
Wilson, Atkinson, Cherry-Garrard, and I took each a pony, returned to the ship, and brought a load ashore; we then changed ponies and repeated the process. We each took three ponies in the morning, and I took one in the afternoon.
The tent parties at this date were made up of Scott, Wilson, Oates and Keohane; Bowers, P.O. Evans, Cherry-Garrard and Crean; man-haulers, E. R. Evans, Atkinson, Wright and Lashly. 'We have all taken to horse meat and are so well fed that hunger isn't thought of.
The light though good when they started about 10 P.M. on Monday night quickly became so bad that but little of the surface could be seen, and the dogs began to show signs of fatigue. 'We turned, Cherry-Garrard says, 'and saw their dogs disappearing one after another, like dogs going down a hole after a rat.
In any case it is a fascinating direction for next year's work, if only fresh transport arrives. As it was 'gallant little Michael' had to be sacrificed when the march was over. 'He walked away, Cherry-Garrard wrote, 'and rolled on the way down, not having done so when we got in. He died quite instantaneously.
He was simply pottering about the camp doing small jobs to the sledges, &c. Cherry-Garrard is remarkable because of his eyes. He can only see through glasses and has to wrestle with all sorts of inconveniences in consequence. Yet one could never guess it for he manages somehow to do more than his share of the work. Tuesday, February 14. 13 Camp. 7 miles 650 yards.
Having depôted six full weeks' provisions, Scott, Cherry-Garrard and Crean started for home, leaving the others to bring James Pigg by easier stages.
Bowers, Cherry-Garrard, Crean, Keohane. December 21 at Upper Glacier Depôt Sledge 1. Scott, Wilson, Oates, P.O. Evans. Sledge 2. E. Evans, Bowers, Crean, Lashly, while Atkinson, Wright, Cherry-Garrard and Keohane returned. January 4, 150 miles from the Pole Sledge 1. Scott, Wilson, Oates, Bowers, P.O. Evans; while E. Evans, Crean, and Lashly returned. The Lower Glacier Depot.
Scott and Meares secured their sledge clear of the snow bridge and with the assistance of their companions, Wilson and Cherry-Garrard, who had the other team, they were lowered by means of an Alpine rope into the crevasse until they could get at the dogs. They, found the poor animals swinging round, snapping at one another and howling dismally, but in an awful tangle.
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