![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
a Minipoo. At noon we nailed up the meteorites and banded the boxes. I learned procedure from Shinaishi. After Lunch I finally heard Terry Hughes' version of the end of Scott: Cannibalism and perhaps murder. "Facts": Charles Winthrop Molesworth Swithinbank, [[present?)]] head of the English Antarctic once interviewed Wright who found Scott's tent. In strict confidence Wright told him the scene was more ghastly than described. Hughes asked Swithinbank: "Was what made it more ghastly cannibalism?" Swithinbank: "I can't answer that." Scott (and Wilson & Bowers) in tent. Huxley: Feb. 7. Spent geologizing on moraine of [[Beardnoise??] 35 lbs of rocks w gondwana ferns "perhaps most important disc. of Exped." Hughes says the rx never reached England but may have been murder weapons stained w blood & hair Feb 11 [[Steered??]] wrong -> ice mess -Feb 13 stumbled on a depot. slow prog. made reduced rations Feb 16 Evans got hypothermia? -> Coma - died in camp. No time to mourn. Weakest holding them back. 13 days earlier he had fallen w. Scott into crevasse -- stupid thereafter. Jan 25 Bowers gave up diary Feb 27 Wilson " " " [dittos for gave up diary]] Mar 29 Scott " " " [dittos for gave up diary]] Mar 9 Mt. Hooper -- short rations & no relief party " [[ditto for Mar]] 10 N. Wind held them in camp. Oates asked advice. Scott reckoned: 55 mi from 1 Ton Depot w 7 days food [[left margin]] [[19?]] [[/left margin]] [[back to main page/body of text]] 6 mi/day (leave am.) 6 x 7 = 42 or 13 mi short of 1 Ton Mar 16 or 17 Oates out Mar 19 camp (last) Letters Nov. 12 - Discovery