a little indignant. It seemed to me that these men
ought to think themselves lucky to be down South at all: there were
thousands who would have like to take their place. But now I understand
quite a lot more than I did then. Science is a big thing if you can
travel a Winter Journey in her cause and not regret it. I am not sure she
is not bigger still if you can have dealings with scientists and continue
to follow in her path.

FOOTNOTES:

[134] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. p. 604.

[135] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. pp. 599, 602, 607.

[136] Scott, _Voyage of the Discovery_, vol. ii. p. 53.

[137] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. p. 295.

[138] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. pp. 432-433.

[139] Ibid. p. 597.

[140] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. p. 362.

[141] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. p. 396.

[142] _With Scott: The Silver Lining_, Taylor, p. 240.

[143] F. G. Jackson, _A Thousand Days in the Arctic_, vol. ii. pp.
380-381.

[144] See p. 179.

[145] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. p. 4.

[146] See pp. 130-134.

[147] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. p. 352.

[148] Ibid. p. 353.

[149] _Scott's Last Expedition_, vol. i. p. 353.

CHAPTER VII

THE WINTER JOURNEY

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a Heaven for?
R. BROWNING, _Andrea del Sarto._

To me, and to every one who has remained here the result of this
effort is the appeal it makes to our imagination, as one of the
most gallant stories in Polar History. That men should wander
forth in the depth of a Polar night to face the most dismal cold
and the fiercest gales in darkness is something new; that they
should have persisted in this effort in spite of every adversity
for five full weeks is heroic. It makes a tale for our generation
which I hope may not be lost in the telling.

Scott's Diary, at Cape Evans.

The following list of the Winter Journey sledge weights (for three men)
is taken from the reckoning made by Bowers before we started:

_Expendible Stores_-- lbs. lbs.
'Antarctic' biscuit 135
3 Cases for same 12
Pemmican 110
Butter