.30. If you are then in
a position to advance a few short marches or "mark time" for five or six
days on food brought, or ponies killed, you should have a good chance of
affecting your object.

You will carry with you beyond One Ton Camp one X.S. ration, including
biscuit and one gallon of paraffin, and of course you will not wait
beyond the time when you can safely return on back depots.

You will of course understand that whilst the object of your third
journey is important, that of the second is vital. At all hazards three
X.S. units of provision must be got to One Ton Camp by the date named,
and if the dogs are unable to perform this service, a man party must be
organised.

(Signed) R.F. SCOTT.

V.--INSTRUCTIONS TO LIEUT. VICTOR CAMPBELL.

Cape Evans, _October_, 1911.
MY DEAR CAMPBELL,--This letter assumes that you are landed somewhere to
the north of this station and that Pennell is able to place it in your
hands in the third week of February before he returns to McMurdo Sound.

From Pennell's instructions, which I have asked him to show you, you will
see that there is a probability of some change in the future plans
whereby some members of the Expedition remain for a second winter at Cape
Evans.

You will learn the details of the situation and the history of this
station from Pennell and others, and I need not go into these matters.

If things should turn out as expected, arrangements will have to be made
for the "Terra Nova" to return to the Ross Sea in the open season
1912-13. Under these circumstances an opportunity offers for the
continuance of useful work in all directions. I have therefore to offer
you the choice of remaining in your present station for a second year or
of returning in the "Terra Nova."

I shall not expect you to stay unless:

(1) All your party are willing or can be replaced by volunteers.
(2) The work in view justifies the step.
(3) Your food supplies are adequate.
(4) Your party is in a position to be relieved with certainty on and
after February 25, 1913.
(5) Levick and Priestley are willing to forgo all legal title to
expeditionary salary for the second year.

I should explain that this last condition is made only because I am in
ignorance of the state of the expeditionary finances.

Should you decide to stay I hope that Pennell may be able to supply all
your requirements. Should you decide to return please inform Priestley
that he is at liberty