Chapter XIX. Details of Sledge Travelling.
Preparations for sledging, [231]; weights, [232]; auxiliary sledges and depôts, [234]; tents, [235]; cooking apparatus, [236]; scale of provisions, [237]; lime-juice, [238]; medical instructions, [238]; sledging costume, [239]; precautions against snow-blindness, [240]; programme of sledging work, [241]; boats to be carried by northern division, [244]; names of sledges, [245].
Chapter XX. The Journey of Egerton and Rawson.
Decide to communicate with “Discovery,” [247]; departure of Egerton and Rawson, [248]; their return, [249]; Petersen frost-bitten, [249]; heroic conduct, [251]; efforts to save Petersen, [251]; difficulties of the return journey, [253]; Egerton’s second start, [255]; death of Petersen, [255].
Chapter XXI. The Routine of Sledge Travelling.
Departure of the sledges, [258]; first camp, [260]; intense cold, [262]; arrival at the autumn depôt, [263]; the parties separate, [264]; duties of cook, [265]; sledging breakfast, [266]; luncheon, [266]; halting for the night, [268]; evenings in the tent, [270].
Chapter XXII. The Northern Division—Travelling in April.
Heavy ice encountered, [273]; road-making over the ice, [275]; struggling over hummocks, [278]; daily routine, [279]; continued cold, [280]; excellence of the sledges, [281]; first symptoms of disease, [282]; a gale of wind, [283]; heavy snow-drifts, [285]; disease increasing, [286]; excellent conduct of the men, [286]; resolve to abandon one boat, [288]; increased weight to drag, [289]; intense cold, [290]; state of the floes, [291]; cross the [83]rd parallel, [292]; enormous hummocks, [293]; hummocks and snow-drifts, [294]; tracks of a hare seen, [296]; young ice, [296]; enforced rest, [297].
Chapter XXIII. The most Northern Point ever reached by Man.
Scurvy, [299]; difficulties increasing, [300]; struggling northwards, [301]; hummocks discoloured by mud, [301]; condition of party, [303]; issue of lime-juice, [304]; scorbutic symptoms, [305]; the last advance, [306]; most northern encampment, [307]; soundings obtained, [308]; the most northern position ever reached by man, [309].