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		<title>Thursday, March 29th 1912</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 1912 22:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the 21st we have had a continuous gale from W.S.W. and S.W. We had fuel to make two cups of tea apiece and bare food for two days on the 20th. Every day we have been ready to start for our depot 11 miles away, but outside the door of the tent it remains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message to the Public</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 1912 21:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chapter XX: The Last March]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The causes of the disaster are not due to faulty organisation, but to misfortune in all risks which had to be undertaken. 1. The loss of pony transport in March 1911 obliged me to start later than I had intended, and obliged the limits of stuff transported to be narrowed. 2. The weather throughout the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, March 22nd and 23rd 1912</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 1912 22:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chapter XX: The Last March]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blizzard bad as ever &#8211; Wilson and Bowers unable to start &#8211; to-morrow last chance &#8211; no fuel and only one or two of food left &#8211; must be near the end. Have decided it shall be natural &#8211; we shall march for the depot with or without our effects and die in our tracks.]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, March 21st</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 1912 22:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chapter XX: The Last March]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Got within 11 miles of depôt Monday night; had to lay up all yesterday in severe blizzard. To-day forlorn hope, Wilson and Bowers going to depot for fuel.]]></description>
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		<title>Monday, March 19th 1912</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 1912 21:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chapter XX: The Last March]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lunch. We camped with difficulty last night, and were dreadfully cold till after our supper of cold pemmican and biscuit and a half a pannikin of cocoa cooked over the spirit. Then, contrary to expectation, we got warm and all slept well. To-day we started in the usual dragging manner. Sledge dreadfully heavy. We are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, March 18th 1912</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 1912 22:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To-day, lunch, we are 21 miles from the depot. Ill fortune presses, but better may come. We have had more wind and drift from ahead yesterday; had to stop marching; wind N.W., force 4, temp. -35º. No human being could face it, and we are worn out nearly. My right foot has gone, nearly all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, March 16th or Saturday 17th 1912</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 1912 22:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chapter XX: The Last March]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lost track of dates, but think the last correct. Tragedy all along the line. At lunch, the day before yesterday, poor Titus Oates said he couldn&#8217;t go on; he proposed we should leave him in his sleeping-bag. That we could not do, and induced him to come on, on the afternoon march. In spite of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday, March 14th, 1912</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 1912 05:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chapter XX: The Last March]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt about the going downhill, but everything going wrong for us. Yesterday we woke to a strong northerly wind with temp. -37°. Couldn&#8217;t face it, so remained in camp till 2, then did 5 1/4 miles. Wanted to march later, but party feeling the cold badly as the breeze (N.) never took off entirely, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday, March 12th 1912</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 1912 22:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christopherhughes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chapter XX: The Last March]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We did 6.9 miles yesterday, under our necessary average. Things are left much the same, Oates not pulling much, and now with hands as well as feet pretty well useless. We did 4 miles this morning in 4 hours 20 min. &#8211; we may hope for 3 this afternoon, 7 ◊ 6 = 42. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, March 11th 1912</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 1912 22:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Titus Oates is very near the end, one feels. What we or he will do, God only knows. We discussed the matter after breakfast; he is a brave fine fellow and understands the situation, but he practically asked for advice. Nothing could be said but to urge him to march as long as he could. [...]]]></description>
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