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	<title>Scott&#039;s Last Expedition &#187; Chapter XVI: Southern Journey: The Barrier Stage</title>
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		<title>Saturday, December 9th 1911</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 31. I turned out two or three times in the night to find the weather slowly improving; at 5.30 we all got up, and at 8 got away with the ponies &#8211; a most painful day. The tremendous snowfall of the late storm had made the surface intolerably soft, and after the first hour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, December 8th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 1911 00:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 30. Hoped against hope for better conditions, to wake to the mournfullest snow and wind as usual. We had breakfast at 10, and at noon the wind dropped. We set about digging out the sledges, no light task. We then shifted our tent sites. All tents had been reduced to the smallest volume by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, December 7th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 1911 00:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 30. The storm continues and the situation is now serious. One small feed remains for the ponies after to-day, so that we must either march to-morrow or sacrifice the animals. That is not the worst; with the help of the dogs we could get on, without doubt. The serious part is that we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, December 6th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 1911 00:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 30. Noon. Miserable, utterly miserable. We have camped in the &#8216;Slough of Despond.&#8217; The tempest rages with unabated violence. The temperature has gone to 33º; everything in the tent is soaking. People returning from the outside look exactly as though they had been in a heavy shower of rain. They drip pools on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday, December 5th 1911 &#8211; Camp 30.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 1911 13:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noon. We awoke this morning to a raging, howling blizzard. The blows we have had hitherto have lacked the very fine powdery snow &#8211; that especial feature of the blizzard. To-day we have it fully developed. After a minute or two in the open one is covered from head to foot. The temperature is high, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday, December 4th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 1911 12:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 29, 9 A.M. I roused the party at 6. During the night the wind had changed from N.N.W. to S.S.E.; it was not strong, but the sun was obscured and the sky looked heavy; patches of land could be faintly seen and we thought that at any rate we could get on, but during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, December 3rd 1911 Camp 29.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 1911 12:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our luck in weather is preposterous. I roused the hands at 2.30 A.M., intending to get away at 5. It was thick and snowy, yet we could have got on; but at breakfast the wind increased, and by 4.30 it was blowing a full gale from the south. The pony wall blew down, huge drifts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday, December 2nd 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 1911 12:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 28. Lat. 83º. Started under very bad weather conditions. The stratus spreading over from the S.E. last night meant mischief, and all day we marched in falling snow with a horrible light. The ponies went poorly on the first march, when there was little or no wind and a high temperature. They were sinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, December 1st 1911 &#8211; Camp 27.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 1911 12:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lat. 82º 47&#8242;. The ponies are tiring pretty rapidly. It is a question of days with all except Nobby. Yet they are outlasting the forage, and to-night against some opinion I decided Christopher must go. He has been shot; less regret goes with him than the others, in remembrance of all the trouble he gave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, November 30th 1911</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 1911 16:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp 26. A very pleasant day for marching, but a very tiring march for the poor animals, which, with the exception of Nobby, are showing signs of failure all round. We were slower by half an hour or more than yesterday. Except that the loads are light now and there are still eight animals left, [...]]]></description>
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