We said good-bye to Atkinson's party, and they started down the Glacier after depositing the foodstuffs they had sledged up the Beardmore for the Polar Party and the last supporting party.
Crean and I lay head down hill to make Nelson and Hooper--who had neversledged before--more comfortable.
It was evident that the dog-teams would arrive too late and be too done to take out the food which had still to be sledged to One Ton for the three parties returning from the plateau.
Priestley with two others sledged over to Cape Royds and has left an account of the old hut there: "After pitching tent Levick and I went over to the hut to forage.
Everything had to be sledged nearly a mile and a half across the sea-ice, but at midnight, after seventeen hours' continuous work, the position was most satisfactory.
Two days later, January 28, we sledged our first loads on to the Barrier.
A few loads of wireless equipment were sledged up to the rocks at the back of the Hut, and by the time several masts were carried to the same place we began to warm to the work.
In landing cargo on Antarctic shores, advantage is generally taken of the floe-ice on to which the materials can be unloaded and at once sledged away to their destination.
After the specimen had been flayed, the skin and a good supply of dogs' meat were hauled across and sledged home.
The ship's company broke stores out of the hold and sledged them three hundred yards to the foot of an aerial, where they were hooked on to the travelling-block by which the shore party, under Wild, raised them to their destination.
Geological and biological collections were packed, stores were sorted out and cases containing personal gear were sledged to the edge of the glacier.
The total distance sledged during our main summer eastern journey was two hundred and thirty-seven miles, including thirty-two of relay work, but none of the many reconnoitring miles.
Rocks were sledged to and packed around the 'dead men' in the holes to make them compact.
Whilst others were occupied finishing off the interior of the hut, Whetter and Close sledged the cases of stores across from the landing-stage, classified them and stacked them against the veranda walls.
Mertz, Ninnis, Whetter and Laseron, with a team of dogs sledged a big load of food-stuffs to Aladdin's Cave on September 1.
When the drill had almost bored through the hard mud in the tap hole, the keeper shoved in a crowbar, and a couple of helpers sledged rhythmically for one minute.
They had sledgedit out--sledged through the steel that had crept into the dolomite and closed the tap-hole.
The various depot parties made use of the hut for replenishing their stores, which had been sledged from my own hut to Hut Point.
They sledged stores back to Cape Evans in case it should be found necessary to remain there over another winter.
When spring came stores were sledged to Hut Point, so that should the sea-ice break up early between these two places we might not be left in an awkward position.
Sir Ernest and Hussey sledged out to meet us with dixies of hot tea, well wrapped up to keep them warm.
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