, by Lillie.

[69] _Terra Nova Natural History Report, Zoology_, vol. i. No. 3,
_Cetacea_, by D. G. Lillie, p. 114.

[70] _Discovery Natural History Report, Zoology_, vol. ii. part i.
pp. 3-4, by E. A. Wilson.

[71] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. p. 22.

[72] Wilson's Journal, _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. p. 613.

[73] Minute plants.

[74] Killer whale.

[75] Officers' mess on the Terra Nova.

[76] Griffith Taylor in _South Polar Times_.

[77] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. p. 35.

[78] Ibid. p. 39.

[79] Ibid. pp. 54, 55.

[80] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. p. 56.

[81] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. pp. 73-75.

[82] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. p. 62.

[83] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. pp. 68, 69.

CHAPTER IV

LAND

Beyond this flood a frozen continent
Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual storms
Of whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice....
MILTON, _Paradise Lost_, II.

"They say it's going to blow like hell. Go and look at the glass." Thus
Titus Oates quietly to me a few hours before we left the pack.

I went and looked at the barograph and it made me feel sea-sick. Within a
few hours I was sick, _very_ sick; but we newcomers to the Antarctic had
yet to learn that we knew nothing about its barometer. Nothing very
terrible happened after all. When I got up to the bridge for the morning
watch we were in open water and it was blowing fresh. It freshened all
day, and by the evening it was blowing a southerly with a short choppy
North Sea swell, and very warm. By 4 A.M. the next morning there was a
big sea running and the dogs and ponies were having a bad time. Rennick
had the morning watch these days, and I was his humble midshipman.

At 5.45 we sighted what we thought was a berg on the port bow. About
three minutes later Rennick said, "There's a bit of pack," and I went
below and reported to Evans. It was very thick with driving snow and also
foggy, and before Evans got up to the bridge we were quite near the pack,
and amongst bits which had floated from it, one of which must have been
our berg. We took in the headsails as quickly as possible, these being
the only sails set, and nosed along dead slow to leeward under steam
al