le week,
on the evening of March 21. According to my diary, the record is as
follows:

"Friday, March 22. Snowing heavily all day, easterly wind: impossible
to travel as nothing can be seen more than ten to twelve yards away.
Temperature high, 7 degrees to 18 degrees F.

** It is a singular fact that this blizzard occurred on the same date
as that during which Captain Scott and his party lost their lives.

"Saturday, March 23. Blowing hard at turn-out time, so did not breakfast
until 8.30. Dovers is cook in my tent this week. He got his clothes
filled up with snow while bringing in the cooker, food-bag, etc. The
wind increased to a fierce gale during the day, and all the loose snow
which fell yesterday was shifted.

"About 5 P.M. the snow was partially blown away from the skirt or ground
cloth, and the tent bulged in a good deal. I got into burberries and
went out to secure it; it was useless to shovel on snow as it was blown
off immediately. I therefore dragged the food-bags off the sledge and
dumped them on. The wind and drift were so strong that I had several
times to get in the lee of the tent to recover my breath and to clear
the mask of snow from my face.

"We are now rather crowded through the tent bulging in so much, and
having cooker and food-bag inside.

"Sunday, March 24. Had a very bad night. The wind was chopping about
from south-east to north and blowing a hurricane. One side of the tent
was pressed in past the centre, and I had to turn out and support it
with bag lashings. Then the ventilator was blown in and we had a pile of
snow two feet high over the sleeping-bags; this kept us warm, but it was
impossible to prevent some of it getting into the bags, and now we are
very wet and the bags like sponges. There were quite two hundredweights
of snow on us; all of which came through a hole three inches wide.

"According to report from the other tent they are worse off than we are;
they say they have four feet of snow in the tent. All this is due to the
change of wind, making the ventilator to windward instead of leeward.

"March 25, 26 and 27. Blizzard still continues, less wind but more
snowfall.

"Thursday, March 28. Heavy falling snow and drift, south-east wind. At
noon, the wind eased down and snow ceased falling, so we slipped into
our burberry over-suits and climbed out to dig for the sledges.

"Nothing could be seen except about two feet of the tops of the tents,
which meant that ther