45/125 I found my left foot badly frost-bitten. Now after this march we came into our banquet--one cup of tea and half a biscuit. Turned in at 9 o'clock. This is really the worst surface I have ever come across in all my journeys here." Mackintosh had stayed on his feet as long as was humanly possible. The records of the outward journey show clearly that he was really unfit to continue beyond the 82ー S.depot, and other members of the party would have liked him to have stayed with Spencer-Smith at lat. |