id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 11579 Scott, Robert Falcon Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott .txt text/plain 180533 12028 84 Well--A Head Wind--Bad Conditions Continue--At One Ton Camp--Winter We have run 190 miles to-day: a good start, but inconvenient in one Crozier on New Year's Day. 8 P.M.--Our calm soon came to an end, the breeze at 3 P.M. coming ice for water, snow for the animals, good slopes for ski-ing, vast ponies to come out, and we commenced a good day's work. 1/4 mile off Hut Point got a clear run to Glacier Tongue. and 2 from Hut Point--a cold east wind; to-night the temperature 19°. Last night the temperature fell to -6° after the wind dropped--to-day Started on a bad surface--ponies plunging a good deal for 2 miles or blowing from 30 to 40 miles an hour all day; drift bad, and to-night Have exercised the ponies to-day and got my first good look at them. Light snow has fallen during the day--to-night the wind ./cache/11579.txt ./txt/11579.txt