Scott's last expedition - 1913 Author:Robert Falcon Scott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: down over it and all was well. My nerves were about on edge at end of day.] At The Knoll Saturday, July 15, 1911.—The min. temp, for the night was -34-5, b... more »ut at 10.30 A.M. it was - 19-2, with a breeze of force 3 from the S.S.W. We got a clear view this morning, however, and could see the moraine shelf facing the Knoll, where we had decided to build our stone hut. We had a short, steep, uphill three miles' pull over very hard and deep-cut sastrugi to this spot, and then, rounding the lower end of the moraine, we found ourselves in the Knoll gap and pitched our last outward camp in a large open smooth snow hollow, hard and windswept as to surface, but in places not cut up by sastrugi. This camp lay about 150 yards below the ridge where we proposed to build our stone hut. [Here we are after a real slog—700 feet up, camped on very hard snow with our hut site chosen off to W. on some moraine—we have been discussing what to call the hut which we hope to build under a big boulder on the slope, walling one side of it—Terra Igloo I expect. It seems too good to be true—19 days out, this is our I5th camp—four days' blizzard. Surely seldom has anyone been so wet—our bags hardly possible to get into—our windclothes just frozen boxes. Birdie's patent balaclava is like iron—it is wonderful how our cares have vanished.] We had originally intended building on the Adelie penguin rookery, but so much of our time has been taken up in getting here, and our oil was already so short, that we decided to build as close as we could to our work with the Emperor penguins, and take the chance of doing so in the blizzard area. In the Adelie penguin rookery we should have been out of the blizzards, but five miles from our principal work. We hoped, however, to find something of a lee for our hut, and to pu...« less