The Voyages of Captain Scott
Chapter X. Release
And Thor
Set his shoulder hard against the stern
To push the ship through...
...and the water gurgled in
And the ship floated on the waves and rock'd.
M. ARNOLD.
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After a few days on board Scott became restless to see what was
going on in the sawing-camp, and on the morning of the 31st he
started off with Evans, Lashly and Handsley to march the ten and
a half miles to the north. When the instructions for this attempt
to free the Discovery were drawn up, there had been, of
course, no telling how broad the ice-sheet would be when operations
began, and Scott had been obliged to assume that it would be nearly
the same as in the previous year, when the open water had extended
to the Dellbridge Islets about eleven miles from the ship. There
he directed that the camp should be made, and Armitage, on whom
in Scott's absence the command had devolved, made all preparations
in accordance with the instructions he had received.
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