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In places these rocks protruded above the ground, and presented either flat surfaces or large cairn-like heaps. The instant John emerged from the forest he looked anxiously away to the right, and the sight he beheld filled him with fear and awe. The forest was a seething mass of flames, and great volumes of smoke were rolling up into the air.
Some stores had been spoilt in consequence. On the morning of 12th November the party found what they sought Scott's tent, snowed up and presenting a cairn-like appearance. From Gran's diary the following is taken: "It has happened horrible, ugly fate, only 11 miles from One Ton Depot, Scott, Wilson, and Birdie. All ghastly.
"As the morning dawned, the shower discontinued, a few laggards fell in scattering confusion over the prostrate city, and the sun climbing the eastern sky sent its peaceful reassuring light upon a cairn-like heap of desolation. The chilled surface of the fallen meteorites were broken up by areas of glowing cinder-like surfaces.
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