They got back to Cape Evans on the 26th.
Richards meanwhile had overhauled the motor and given it some trial runs on the sea-ice.

But he reported that the machine was not working satisfactorily, and Mackintosh decided not to persevere with it.
"Everybody is up to his eyes in work," runs the last entry in the journal left by Mackintosh at Cape Evans.

"All gear is being overhauled, and personal clothing is having the last stitches.

We have been improvising shoes to replace the finneskoe, of which we are badly short.

Wild has made an excellent shoe out of an old horse-rug he found here, and this is being copied by other men.