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  2. Last entry. For God's sake look after our people.
  3. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R Scott
  4. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far
  5. I do not think we can hope for any better things now
  6. Every day we have been ready to start for our depot 11 miles away, but outside the door of the tent it remains a scene of whirling drift
  7. We had fuel to make two cups of tea apiece and bare food for two days on the 20th.
  8. Thursday March 29, 1912. Sine the 21st we have had a continuous gale from WSW and SW
  9. We shall march for the depot with or without our effects and die in our tracks
  10. Have decided it shall be natural
  11. No fuel and only one or two of food left, must be near the end
  12. Wilson and Bowers unable to start, tomorrow last chance
  13. March 22 and 23, 1912. Blizzard bad as ever
  14. Today forlorn hope, Wilson and Bowers going to depot for fuel
  15. Had to lay up all yesterday in severe blizzard
  16. March 21, 1912. Got within 11 miles of depot on Monday
  17. The weather doesn't give us a chance, -43 degrees today
  18. Amputation is the least I can hope for now, but will the trouble spread? That is the serious question
  19. There is no chance to nurse ones feet till we can get hot food into us.
  20. We have two days food but barely a days fuel. All our feet are getting bad