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The Beardmore Glacier is not difficult in fine weather, but on our return we did not get a single completely fine day; this with a sick companion enormously increased our anxieties.

— Robert Falcon Scott

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Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

He said, ‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’ He went out into the blizzard and we have not seen him since.

Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.

I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

I have done this to show what an Englishman can do.

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