It is more than regrettable that after having gone through those many months of hardship and toil, Mackintosh and Hayward should have been lost.

Spencer-Smith during those long days, dragged by his comrades on the sledge, suffering but never complaining, became an example to all men.

Mackintosh and Hayward owed their lives on that journey to the unremitting care and strenuous endeavours of Joyce, Wild, and Richards, who, also scurvy-stricken but fitter than their comrades, dragged them through the deep snow and blizzards on the sledges.

I think that no more remarkable story of human endeavour has been revealed than the tale of that long march which I have collated from various diaries.

Unfortunately, the diary of the leader of this side of the Expedition was lost with him.