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	<title>Scott&#039;s Last Expedition &#187; Chapter II: In the Pack</title>
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		<title>Summary of the Pack</title>
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		<title>Friday, December 30th 1910 8pm</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[8 P.M. &#8211; Our calm soon came to an end, the breeze at 3 P.M. coming strong from the S.S.W., dead in our teeth &#8211; a regular southern blizzard. We are creeping along a bare 2 knots. I begin to wonder if fortune will ever turn her wheel. On every possible occasion she seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, December 30th 1910 2pm</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[2 P.M.&#8211;The wind failed in the forenoon. Sails were clewed up, and at eleven we stopped to sound. The sounding showed 1111 fathoms &#8211; we appear to be on the edge of the continental shelf. Nelson got some samples and temperatures. The sun is bursting through the misty sky and warming the air. The snowstorm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, December 30th 1910</title>
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		<title>Thursday, December 29th 1910</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 1910 08:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No sights. At last the change for which I have been so eagerly looking has arrived and we are steaming amongst floes of small area evidently broken by swell, and with edges abraded by contact. The transition was almost sudden. We made very good progress during the night with one or two checks and one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, December 28, 1910 10pm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 1910 22:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[10 P.M. &#8211; We made our start at eight, and so far things look well. We have found the ice comparatively thin, the floes 2 to 3 feet in thickness except where hummocked; amongst them are large sheets from 6 inches to 1 foot in thickness as well as fairly numerous water pools. The ship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, December 28, 1910</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 1910 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A FRESH MS. BOOK. 1910-11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 1910 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Flyleaf &#8216;And in regions far Such heroes bring ye forth As those from whom we came And plant our name Under that star Not known unto our North.&#8217; &#8216;To the Virginian Voyage.&#8217; DRAYTON. &#8216;But be the workemen what they may be, let us speake of the worke; that is, the true greatnesse of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday, December 27th 1910 9pm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 1910 21:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[9 P.M.- One of the ponies went down to-night. He has been down before. It may mean nothing; on the other hand it is not a circumstance of good omen. Otherwise there is nothing further to record, and I close this volume of my Journal under circumstances which cannot be considered cheerful.]]></description>
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