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	<title>Scott&#039;s Last Expedition &#187; Chapter IX: The Work and the Workers</title>
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		<title>Sunday, May 14th 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grey and dull in the morning. Exercised the ponies and held the usual service. This morning I gave Wright some notes containing speculations on the amount of ice on the Antarctic continent and on the effects of winter movements in the sea ice. I want to get into his head the larger bearing of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday, May 13th 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wind dropped about 10 last night. This morning it was calm and clear save for a light misty veil of ice crystals through which the moon shone with scarce clouded brilliancy, surrounded with bright cruciform halo and white paraselene. Mock moons with prismatic patches of colour appeared in the radiant ring, echoes of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, May 12th 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning was quiet. Played football in the morning; wind got up in the afternoon and evening. All day it has been blowing hard, 30 to 60 miles an hour; it has never looked very dark overhead, but a watery cirrus has been in evidence for some time, causing well marked paraselene. I have not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, May 10th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 1911 21:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been blowing from the South 12 to 20 miles per hour since last night; the ice remains fast. The temperature -12º to -19º. The party does not come. I went well beyond Inaccessible Island till Hut Point and Castle Rock appeared beyond Tent Island, that is, well out on the space which was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday, May 8th &#8211; Tuesday, May 9th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 1911 06:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As one of the series of lectures I gave an outline of my plans for next season on Monday evening. Everyone was interested naturally. I could not but hint that in my opinion the problem of reaching the Pole can best be solved by relying on the ponies and man haulage. With this sentiment the [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 1911 20:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daylight now is very short. One wonders why the Hut Point party does not come. Bowers and Cherry-Garrard have set up a thermometer screen containing maximum thermometers and thermographs on the sea floe about 3/4&#8242; N.W. of the hut. Another smaller one is to go on top of the Ramp. They took the screen out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday, May 6th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 1911 22:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two more days of calm, interrupted with occasional gusts. Yesterday, Friday evening, Taylor gave an introductory lecture on his remarkably fascinating subject &#8211; modern physiography. These modern physiographers set out to explain the forms of land erosion on broad common-sense lines, heedless of geological support. They must, in consequence, have their special language. River courses, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, May 5th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 1911 22:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another calm day following a quiet night. Once or twice in the night a light northerly wind, soon dying away. The temperature down to -12º. What is the meaning of this comparative warmth? As usual in calms the Wind Vane Hill temperature is 3º or 4º higher. It is delightful to contemplate the amount of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, May 4th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 1911 21:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the small height of Wind Vane Hill (64 feet) it was impossible to say if the ice in the Strait had been out after yesterday&#8217;s wind. The sea was frozen, but after twelve hours&#8217; calm it would be in any case. The dark appearance of the ice is noticeable, but this has been the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, May 3rd 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 1911 11:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another calm day, very beautiful and clear. Wilson and Bowers took our few dogs for a run in a sledge. Walked myself out over ice in North Bay&#8211;there are a good many cracks and pressures with varying thickness of ice, showing how tide and wind shift the thin sheets&#8211;the newest leads held young ice of [...]]]></description>
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