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	<title>Scott&#039;s Last Expedition &#187; Chapter XI: To Midwinter Day</title>
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		<title>Thursday, June 22nd 1911. MIDWINTER.</title>
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		<title>Wednesday, June 21st 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The temperature low again, falling to -36º. A curious hazy look in the sky, very little wind. The cold is bringing some minor troubles with the clockwork instruments in the open and with the acetylene gas plant &#8211; no insuperable difficulties. Went for a ski run round the bergs; found it very dark and uninteresting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday, June 20th 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night the temperature fell to -36º, the lowest we have had this year. On the Ramp the minimum was -31º, not the first indication of a reversed temperature gradient. We have had a calm day, as is usual with a low thermometer. It was very beautiful out of doors this morning; as the crescent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday, June 19th 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pleasant change to find the air calm and the sky clear &#8211; temperature down to -28º. At 1.30 the moon vanished behind the western mountains, after which, in spite of the clear sky, it was very dark on the floe. Went out on ski across the bay, then round about the cape, and so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, June 18th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 1911 09:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another blizzard &#8211; the weather is distressing. It ought to settle down soon, but unfortunately the moon is passing. Held the usual Morning Service. Hymns not quite successful to-day. To-night Atkinson has taken the usual monthly measurement. I don&#8217;t think there has been much change.]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday, June 17th 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northerly wind, temperature changeable, dropping to -16º. Wind doubtful in the afternoon. Moon still obscured &#8211; it is very trying. Feeling dull in spirit to-day.]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, June 16th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 1911 20:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overcast again &#8211; little wind but also little moonlight. Jimmy Pigg quite recovered. Went round the bergs in the afternoon. A great deal of ice has fallen from the irregular ones, showing that a great deal of weathering of bergs goes on during the winter and hence that the life of a berg is very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, June 15th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 1911 21:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keen cold wind overcast sky till 5.30 P.M. Spent an idle day. Jimmy Pigg had an attack of colic in the stable this afternoon. He was taken out and doctored on the floe, which seemed to improve matters, but on return to the stable he was off his feed. This evening the Soldier tells me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, June 14th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 1911 10:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Storms are giving us little rest. We found a thin stratus over the sky this morning, foreboding ill. The wind came, as usual with a rush, just after lunch. At first there was much drift &#8211; now the drift has gone but the gusts run up to 65 m.p.h. Had a comfortless stroll around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday, June 13th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 1911 07:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A very beautiful day. We revelled in the calm clear moonlight; the temperature has fallen to -26º. The surface of the floe perfect for ski &#8211; had a run to South Bay in forenoon and was away on a long circuit around Inaccessible Island in the afternoon. In such weather the cold splendour of the [...]]]></description>
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