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	<title>Scott&#039;s Last Expedition &#187; Chapter I: Through Stormy Seas</title>
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		<title>Saturday, December 10th 1910</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 1910 07:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View Larger Map Dead Reckoning 66° 38&#8242;. Long. 178° 47&#8242;. Made good S. 17 W. 94. C. Crozier 688&#8242;. Stayed on deck till midnight. The sun just dipped below the southern horizon. The scene was incomparable. The northern sky was gloriously rosy and reflected in the calm sea between the ice, which varied from burnished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, December 9th 1910</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 1910 06:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View Larger Map 65° 8&#8242;. 177° 41&#8242;. Made good S. 4 W. 109&#8242;; Scott Island S. 22 W. 147&#8242;. At six this morning bergs and pack were reported ahead; at first we thought the pack might consist only of fragments of the bergs, but on entering a stream we found small worn floes&#8211;the ice not more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, December 8th 1910 (evening)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 1910 18:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later, about 7 P.M. Evans saw two icebergs far on the port beam; they could only be seen from the masthead. Whales have been frequently seen &#8211; Balænoptera Sibbaldi- supposed to be the biggest mammal that has ever existed.]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, December 8th 1910</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 1910 07:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View Larger Map 63° 20&#8242;. 177° 22&#8242;. S. 31 E. 138&#8242;; to Circle 191&#8242;. The wind increased in the first watch last night to a moderate gale. The ship close hauled held within two points of her course. Topgallant sails and mainsail were furled, and later in the night the wind gradually crept ahead. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, December 7th 1910 (Evening)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 1910 17:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Ice. &#8211; There was a report of ice at dinner to-night. Evans corroborated Cheetham&#8217;s statement that there was a berg far away to the west, showing now and again as the sun burst through the clouds.]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, December 7th 1910</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 1910 06:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View Larger Map Lat. 61° 22&#8242;. Long. 179° 56&#8242; W. Made good S. 25 E. 150; Ant. Circle 313&#8242;. The barometer descended on a steep regular gradient all night, turning suddenly to an equally steep up grade this morning. With the turn a smart breeze sprang up from the S.W. and forced us three points off our course. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday, 6th December, 1910</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 1910 07:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lat. 59° 7&#8242;. Long. 177° 51&#8242; E. Made good S. 17 E. 153; 457&#8242; to Circle. The promise of yesterday has been fulfilled, the swell has continued to subside, and this afternoon we go so steadily that we have much comfort. I am truly thankful mainly for the sake of the ponies; poor things, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday, 5th December, 1910</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 1910 06:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lat. 56° 40&#8242;. The barometer has been almost steady since Saturday, the wind rising and falling slightly, but steady in direction from the west. From a point off course we have crept up to the course itself. Everything looks prosperous except the ponies. Up to this morning, in spite of favourable wind and sea, the ship has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday, December 3rd, 1910</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 1910 06:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the wind slowly fell towards evening; less water was taken on board, therefore less found its way below, and it soon became evident that our baling was gaining on the engine-room. The work was steadily kept going in two-hour shifts. By 10 P.M. the hole in the engine-room bulkhead was completed, and (Lieut.) Evans, wriggling over the coal, found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, December 2nd, 1910</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 1910 06:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day of great disaster. From 4 o&#8217;clock last night the wind freshened with great rapidity, and very shortly we were under topsails, jib, and staysail only. It blew very hard and the sea got up at once. Soon we were plunging heavily and taking much water over the lee rail. Oates and Atkinson with [...]]]></description>
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