Hut Point. Good moonlight at 7 a.m.—had breakfast. Broke camp very quickly—Lashly splendid at camp work as of old—very heavy pull up to Castle Rock, sweated much. This sweating in cold temperature is a serious drawback. Reached Hut Point 1 p.m. Found all well in excellent spirits—didn’t seem to want us much!!

Party reported very bad weather since we left...

When Easter was over, a sigh of relief escaped us all; these holidays are always tiring. They are tedious enough in places which have more amusements to offer than the Barrier, but here they were insufferably long.

Our manner of life was now completely in order, and everything worked easily and well. The chief work of the winter would be...

A party came back with more food for us from Cape Evans. Scott and 7 others. They came by land as before they had gone to Cape Evans.

Scott and I went to Pram Point in the afternoon—again no seal.

Very cold and windy, A glorious evening of colour.

The relief party arrived on April 18.

We had spent such a happy week, just the seven of us, at the Discovery hut that I think, glad as we were to see the men, we would most of us have rather been left undisturbed, and I expected that it would mean that we should have to move homewards, as it turned out.

At breakfast we discussed Amundsen. Most of those here consider he will reach the Pole first, if he is not driven out to sea. Their hut is built on the sea ice right under the Barrier. According to the people in Terra Nova, there were cracks between it and the hut. But I am convinced that experienced people like Amundsen and Johansen would not build on unsafe ground, if there were better to be found.

It seems my compatriots...