d by
Davis:
In
Memoriam
CAPT. R.F. Scott, R.N.,
DR. E.A. WILSON, Capt. L.E.G. Oates, INS. DRGS.
LT. H.R. BOWERS, R.I.M.,
PETTY OFFICER E. Evans, R.N.,
Who Died on their
Return from the
Pole-March,
1912.

To Strive, To Seek,
To Find,
And Not To Yield.

This cross was borne on a sledge over the frozen sea to Hut Point, and
thence carried by Atkinson, and those who had taken part in the search
for Captain Scott, to the top of Observation Hill, which is in full view
of Cape Evans, and also of Captain Scott's original winter quarters in
the Discovery Expedition. The cross overlooks also his resting place: The
Great Ice Barrier.

As there is nothing to cause this wooden cross to rot, it will remain
standing for an indefinite time.

We left a year's stores for a dozen people at Cape Evans and re-embarked
the remainder of our possessions.

The collections and specimens were carefully stowed in our holds, and
then we took the ship to Cape Royds and Granite Harbour, where geological
depots had been made by Priestley, Taylor, and Debenham.

Finally we revisited Evans Coves, and secured the ship to a natural wharf
of very hard sea ice, which stretches out some distance from the
Piedmont.

Priestley here secured his party's geological dump, and while he was away
the remainder of the expedition in little relays visited the igloo where
Campbell and his party spent the previous winter. Concerning the igloo,
the following are my impressions, taken from my diary:

"Never in my life have I experienced such sensations as I did on this
occasion. The visit to the igloo explained in itself a story of
hardship that brought home to us what Campbell never would have told.
There was only one corner of it where a short man could stand upright.
In odd corners were discarded clothes, saturated in blubber and
absolutely black with smoke; the weight of these garments was
extraordinary, and how Campbell's party ever lived through what they
did I don't know:

"Although the igloo was once white inside, blubber stoves had
blackened it throughout. No cell prisoners ever had such discomforts.
(Campbell's simple narrative I read alo