CONTENTS

CHAPPAGE
I.The Expedition[11]
II.Supplies and Equipment[15]
III.The Ship, the Hut, and Other Necessities[18]
IV.The Staff and the Royal Visit[23]
V.We Leave Lyttelton[26]
VI.The Antarctic Circle[31]
VII.The Attempt to Reach King Edward VII Land[36]
VIII.Landing of Stores and Equipment[46]
IX.The "Nimrod" Leaves Us[52]
X.Winter Quarters at Cape Royds Outside[58]
XI.Winter Quarters—Inside[63]
XII.Sledging Equipment[68]
XIII.Our Ponies and Dogs[74]
XIV.Mount Erebus[78]
XV.Attacking Mount Erebus[80]
XVI.The Conquest of Mount Erebus[87]
XVII.Preparations for the Winter Months[95]
XVIII.Still in the Hut[98]
XIX.Preliminary Journeys[104]
XX.Arrangements and Instructions[108]
XXI.The Start to the South Pole[112]
XXII.Onward[117]
XXIII.Beyond All Former Footsteps[122]
XXIV.The Highway to the South[126]
XXV.On the Great Glacier[130]
XXVI.On the Plateau to the Farthest South[135]
XXVII.Farthest South[142]
XXVIII.The Return March[146]
XXIX.Struggling Back[151]
XXX.The Final Stage[158]
XXXI.Notes on the Southern Journey[164]
XXXII.The Return of the "Nimrod" [173]
XXXIII.The Western Party[178]
XXXIV.Instructions for the Northern Party[184]
XXXV.The Narrative of Professor David. We Start for the Magnetic Pole[187]
XXXVI.Across the Ice Barrier[193]
XXXVII.The Drygalski Glacier[199]
XXXVIII.Crevasses[203]
XXXIX.Upwards and Onwards[208]
XL.The Magnetic Pole[212]
XLI.Returning[216]
XLII.Obstacles In Our Course[222]
XLIII.Safe Aboard[226]
XLIV.The Return to New Zealand[231]
XLV.Penguins. (Some Notes by James Murray, Biologist to the Expedition)[238]
XLVI.The Adelies and Their Chicks[245]
XLVII.Notes[254]