By Charles Turley
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In fact every branch of science saw a greater chance of success in the Ross than quadrant instructions on in Concerning any other region. voyage as the Discovery's it may such a be thought that, when once the direction the fewer there are the better. is settled, Provided, however, that they leave the greatest possible freedom to the commander, they may be very useful in giving him a general view of the situation, and in stating the order in which the various objects are interests clash, advantage to it know is clearly in what to held.
If THE DISCOVERY Something remains to be said about the Discovery's prospective course, and of the instructions given to Captain Scott. For purposes of reference Sir Clements Markham had suggested that the Antarctic area should be divided into four quadrants, to be named respectively the and the Enderby, and proposed that the Ross quadrant should Victoria, the Ross, the Weddell, when he also be the one chosen for this expedition, his proposal was received with such unanimous approval that long before the Discovery was built her prospective course had been finally decided.
I had anticipated considerable prejudice on the part of the men to this form of diet which it will so often be essential to enforce, and was agreeably surprised to find that they were by no means averse to it. Many pronounced it excellent, and all seemed to appreciate the necessity of cultivating a taste for it. ' SOUTHWARD HO! 37 Perhaps the most excited member of the party over Macquarie Island was Scott's Aberdeen this visit to Scamp/ who was most comically divided to run away from the penguins, and a feeling that in such strange company it behooved him to be very courageous.