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	<title>Scott&#039;s Last Expedition &#187; Chapter VII: At Discovery Hut</title>
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		<title>Sunday, April 16th 1911</title>
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		<title>Saturday, April 15th 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weather continuing thoroughly bad. Wind blowing from 30 to 40 miles an hour all day; drift bad, and to-night snow falling. I am waiting to get back to Hut Point with relief stores. To-night sent up signal light to inform them there of our safe arrival &#8211; an answering flare was shown.]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, April 14th 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good Friday. Peaceful day. Wind continuing 20 to 30 miles per hour. Had divine service.]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, April 13th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 1911 20:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Started from Hut Point 9 A.M. Tuesday. Party consisted of self, Bowers, P.O. Evans, Taylor, one tent; Evans, Gran, Crean, Debenham, and Wright, second tent. Left Wilson in charge at Hut Point with Meares, Forde, Keohane, Oates, Atkinson, and Cherry-Garrard. All gave us a pull up the ski slope; it had become a point of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday, April 10th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 1911 17:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intended to make for Cape Evans this morning. Called hands early, but when we were ready for departure after breakfast, the sky became more overcast and snow began to fall. It continued off and on all day, only clearing as the sun set. It would have been the worst condition possible for our attempt, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, April 9th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 1911 08:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday night it grew overcast and the wind went to the south. During the whole of yesterday and last night it blew a moderate blizzard &#8211; the temperature at highest +5º, a relatively small amount of drift. On Friday night the ice in the Strait went out from a line meeting the shore 3/4 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, April 7th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 1911 21:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Went north over ice with Atkinson, Bowers, Taylor, Cherry-Garrard; found the thickness nearly 5 inches everywhere except in open water leads, which remain open in many places. As we got away from the land we got on an interesting surface of small pancakes, much capped and pressed up, a sort of mosaic. This is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, April 6th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 1911 22:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather continued fine and clear yesterday &#8211; one of the very few fine days we have had since our arrival at the hut. The sun shone continuously from early morning till it set behind the northern hills about 5 P.M. The sea froze completely, but with only a thin sheet to the north. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, April 5th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 1911 12:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The east wind has continued with a short break on Sunday for five days, increasing in violence and gradually becoming colder and more charged with snow until yesterday, when we had a thick overcast day with falling and driving snow and temperature down to -11°. Went beyond Castle Rock on Sunday and Monday mornings with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, April 2nd 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 1911 12:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Went round Cape Armitage to Pram Point on sea ice for first time yesterday afternoon. Ice solid everywhere, except off the Cape, where there are numerous open pools. Can only imagine layers of comparatively warm water brought to the surface by shallows. The ice between the pools is fairly shallow. One Emperor killed off the [...]]]></description>
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