2, with Wordie, McNeish, and McIlroy.

These hoop-tents are very easily shifted and set up.

The eight forward hands had the large hoop-tent, No.

3; Crean had charge of No.

4 hoop-tent with Hussey, Marston, and Cheetham; and Worsley had the other pole-tent, No.
5, with Greenstreet, Lees, Clark, Kerr, Rickenson, Macklin, and Blackborrow, the last named being the youngest of the forward hands.
"To-night the temperature has dropped to -16ｰ Fahr., and most of the men are cold and uncomfortable.