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	<title>Scott&#039;s Last Expedition &#187; CHAPTER VIII: Home Impressions and an Excursion</title>
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		<title>Saturday, April 22nd 9111</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cape Evans, Winter Quarters. The sledging season is at an end. It&#8217;s good to be back in spite of all the losses we have sustained. To-day we enjoy a very exceptional calm. The sea is freezing over of course, but unfortunately our view from Observatory Hill is very limited. Oates and the rest are exercising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, April 21st 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Started homeward at 10.30. Left Meares in charge of station with Demetri to help with dogs, Lashly and Keohane to look out for ponies, Nelson and Day and Forde to get some idea of the life and experience. Homeward party, therefore: Self &#8211; Bowers &#8211; Wilson &#8211; Oates &#8211; Atkinson &#8211; Cherry-Garrard &#8211; Crean &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, April 20th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 1911 21:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hut Point. Everything ready for starting this morning, but of course it &#8216;blizzed.&#8217; Weather impossible &#8211; much wind and drift from south. Wind turned to S.E. in afternoon &#8211; temperatures low. Went for walk to Cape Armitage, but it is really very unpleasant. The wind blowing round the Cape is absolutely blighting, force 7 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, April 19th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 1911 16:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hut Point. Calm during night, sea froze over at noon, 4 1/2 inches thick off Hut Point, showing how easily the sea will freeze when the chance is given. Three seals reported on the ice; all hands out after breakfast and the liver and blubber of all three seals were brought in. This relieves one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday, April 18th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 1911 16:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hut Point. Good moonlight at 7 A.M. &#8211; had breakfast. Broke camp very quickly &#8211; Lashly splendid at camp work as of old &#8211; 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 &#8211; didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday, April 17th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 1911 22:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Started from C. Evans with two 10 ft. sledges. Party 1. Self, Lashly, Day, Demetri. ,, 2. Bowers, Nelson, Crean, Hooper. We left at 8 A.M., taking our personal equipment, a week&#8217;s provision of sledging food, and butter, oatmeal, flour, lard, chocolate, &#38;c., for the hut. Two of the ponies hauled the sledges to within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Flyleaf of Fresh MS. Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 1911 19:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genus Homo, Species Sapiens! FLOTSAM Wm. Barents&#8217; house in Novaya Zemlya built 1596. Found by Capt. Carlsen 1871 (275 years later) intact, everything inside as left! What of this hut? The ocean girt continent. &#8216;Might have seemed almost heroic if any higher end than excessive love of gain and traffic had animated the design.&#8217; &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impressions on returning to the Hut, April_ 13, 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 1911 11:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In choosing the site of the hut on our Home Beach I had thought of the possibility of northerly winds bringing a swell, but had argued, firstly, that no heavy northerly swell had ever been recorded in the Sound; secondly, that a strong northerly wind was bound to bring pack which would damp the swell; [...]]]></description>
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