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	<title>Scott&#039;s Last Expedition &#187; Chapter XV: The Last Weeks at Cape Evans</title>
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		<title>Tuesday, October 31st 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blizzard has blown itself out this morning, and this afternoon it has cleared; the sun is shining and the wind dropping. Meares and Ponting are just off to Hut Point. Atkinson and Keohane will probably leave in an hour or so as arranged, and if the weather holds, we shall all get off to-morrow. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday, October 30th 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had another beautiful day yesterday, and one began to feel that the summer really had come; but to-day, after a fine morning, we have a return to blizzard conditions. It is blowing a howling gale as I write. Yesterday Wilson, Crean, P.O. Evans, and I donned our sledging kit and camped by the bergs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday, October 28th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 1911 12:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My feet sore and one &#8216;tendon Achillis&#8217; strained (synovitis); shall be right in a day or so, however. Last night tremendous row in the stables. Christopher and Chinaman discovered fighting. Gran nearly got kicked. These ponies are getting above themselves with their high feeding. Oates says that Snippets is still lame and has one leg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, October 27th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 1911 11:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were away by 10.30 yesterday. Walked to the Glacier Tongue with gloomy forebodings; but for one gust a beautifully bright inspiriting day. Seals were about and were frequently mistaken for the motors. As we approached the Glacier Tongue, however, and became more alive to such mistakes, we realised that the motors were not in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, October 26th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 1911 17:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Couldn&#8217;t see the motors yesterday till I walked well out on the South Bay, when I discovered them with glasses off the Glacier Tongue. There had been a strong wind in the forenoon, but it seemed to me they ought to have got further &#8211; annoyingly the telephone gave no news from Hut Point, evidently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October, 1911.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 1911 11:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what to think of Amundsen&#8217;s chances. If he gets to the Pole, it must be before we do, as he is bound to travel fast with dogs and pretty certain to start early. On this account I decided at a very early date to act exactly as I should have done had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday, October 24th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 1911 10:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two fine days for a wonder. Yesterday the motors seemed ready to start and we all went out on the floe to give them a &#8216;send off.&#8217; But the inevitable little defects cropped up, and the machines only got as far as the Cape. A change made by Day in the exhaust arrangements had neglected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October, 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 1911 00:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October,_ 1911. &#8211; I don&#8217;t know what to think of Amundsen&#8217;s chances. If he gets to the Pole, it must be before we do, as he is bound to travel fast with dogs and pretty certain to start early. On this account I decided at a very early date to act exactly as I should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, October 22nd 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 1911 17:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The motor axle case was completed by Thursday morning, and, as far as one can see, Day made a very excellent job of it. Since that the Motor Party has been steadily preparing for its departure. To-day everything is ready. The loads are ranged on the sea ice, the motors are having a trial run, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, October 18th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 1911 00:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The southerly blizzard has burst on us. The air is thick with snow. A close investigation of the motor axle case shows that repair is possible. It looks as though a good strong job could be made of it. Yesterday Taylor and Debenham went to Cape Royds with the object of staying a night or [...]]]></description>
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