Has three or four short chapters on his participation in Scott’s Terra Nova expedition.
p. 91-92, outlines activities during enforced leisure in ice-pack while still aboard Terra Nova: Wilson—water colours; Nelson—fish specimens; D. Lillie—microscopic work and caricatures; F. Drake—ship’s log transcriptions; T. Gran—work on ski equipment; Russians and Meares—discussed animal harnesses; Cherry-Garrard—skinned penguins then giving body to cook; Bernard Day—snow goggles; Harry Pennell—in crow’s nest looking for leads.
p. 99: Here I might interpose a word or two on our sledge library. Consisting of some small light books, it formed part of our sparse personal allowance. Wright had a couple of books on physics, while Debenham had The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Browning, and a series of sledging tables. Seaman Evans had a Red Magazine and a volume by William le Queux. I had Tennyson, a German dictionary, and a couple of light German books. In our literary discussions Evans emphasized his lack of enthusiasm for Kipling, whose yarns about the Navy were “much too concentrated-like.” ‘Dumb Ass’, his favorite author, we were unable to recognize until he began to discourse on The Three Musketeers.
p. 105: …we experienced nothing of the boredom and ennui of the long nights which so many polar explorers have mentioned.
p. 107: To each of the numbers of The South Polar Times published during the winter, I contributed some sixteen pages. Each issue was bound by Bernard Day in Venesta ply-wood, and then handed to Scott who read it to us, murdering, I must say, any humour it contained. His reading constituted publication.
p. 99: Here I might interpose a word or two on our sledge library. Consisting of some small light books, it formed part of our sparse personal allowance. Wright had a couple of books on physics, while Debenham had The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Browning, and a series of sledging tables. Seaman Evans had a Red Magazine and a volume by William le Queux. I had Tennyson, a German dictionary, and a couple of light German books. In our literary discussions Evans emphasized his lack of enthusiasm for Kip0ling, whose yarns about the Navy were “much too concentrated-like.” ‘Dumb Ass’, his favorite author, we were unable to recognize until he began to discourse on The Three Musketeers.
p. 112: …waiting until Debenham’s knee would allow of his walking again.