dent. We found Rabchick on
arrival, but no Manuki Noogis, who never reappeared.

As we neared the Cape Atkinson turned to me: "Would you go for Campbell
or the Polar Party next year?" he said. "Campbell," I answered: just then
it seemed to me unthinkable that we should leave live men to search for
those who were dead.

FOOTNOTES:

[259] See Introduction, pp. l, lii-lix.

[260] See pp. 353, 383.

[261] See pp. 382, 383.

[262] My own diary.

[263] See p. 115.

[264] _British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913_, "Meteorology," by
G. C. Simpson, vol. i. pp. 28-30.

[265] See pp. 550-556.

[266] My own diary.

[267] My own diary.

[268] My own diary.

[269] As a matter of fact this was not the case.

[270] My own diary.

[271] My own diary.

[272] Atkinson in _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. ii. p. 309.

[273] My own diary.

[274] My own diary.

[275] Ibid.

[276] Atkinson in _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. ii. p. 31.

[277] Atkinson in _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. ii. p. 314.

[278] Atkinson's diary.

[279] My own diary.

CHAPTER XIV

THE LAST WINTER

Ordinary people snuggle up to God as a lost leveret in a freezing
wilderness might snuggle up to a Siberian tiger....--H. G. WELLS.

(I) _5 men dead._ (III) _2 men landed._

SCOTT OATES ARCHER WILLIAMSON
WILSON SEAMAN EVANS
BOWERS
(IV) _13 men at Cape Evans for third year._

(II) _9 men gone home._ ATKINSON CREAN
CHERRY-GARRARD KEOHANE
LIEUT. EVANS DAY WRIGHT DIMITRI
SIMPSON FORDE DEBENHAM HOOPER
MEARES CLISSOLD GRAN WILLIAMSON
TAYLOR ANTON NELSON ARCHER
PONTING LASHLY

A quite disproportionately small part of Scott's Last Expedition was
given to Atkinson's account of the last and worst year any of us
survivors spent: some one should have compelled him to write, for he will
not do so if he can help it. The problems which presented themselves were
unique in the history of Arctic travel, the weather conditions which had
to be faced during this last winter were such as had never been met in
McMurdo Sound! The sledging personnel had lat