march. We have only three days' food with us and shall be in Queer
Street if we miss the depot.

"Our bags are getting steadily wetter, so are our clothes.

"It shows a tendency to clear off now (breakfast time), so, D.V., we
may march after all. I am in tribulation as regards meals now, as we
have run out of salt, one of my favourite commodities. It was owing to
Atkinson's party taking back an extra tin by mistake from the Upper
Glacier Depot.

"Fortunately we have some depoted there, so I will only have to endure
another two weeks without it.

"10 p.m.--We have got in a march after all, thank the Lord.

"Assisted by the wind we made an excellent run down to our 1 1/2
Depot, where the big red flag was blowing out of driving drift. Here
we picked up 14 cans of oil, and one week's food for five men,
together with some personal gear depoted.

"We left the bamboo and the flag on the cairn. I was much relieved to
pick up this depot; now we have only one other source of anxiety in
the endless snow summit, viz., the third depot in Latitude 86 degrees
56 minutes S. In the afternoon we did 5.2 miles. It was a miserable
march, blizzard all the time and our sledge either sticking on
sastrugi or overrunning the traces. We had to lower the sail half
down, and Titus and I hung on to her--it was most strenuous work as
well as much colder than pulling ahead. Most of the time we had to
brake back with all our strength to keep the sledge from overrunning.