THE END.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1864, 25 September 1913, Page 7

THE END.

LAST PAGE OF SCOTT'S DIARY.

THE FINAL TRAGEDY.

By Telejraph—Press Association-Oopyrleht

London, September 23. The continuation and conclusion of Captain Scott's story (the first portion qf which was published in The Dominion yesterday) is as follows: — "We reached another depot on March 9. The fierce cold injured the stoppers, and much oil was wasted. Captain Oates had borno intense suffering for many weeks uncomplainingly. On March 10 we were fifty-five miles from One Ton Camp, with seven days' food. I doubt whether wo can do it., "Oates was a brave soul. Ho slept through the night of March 15, and' walked out in tho blizzard next morning, saying, 'I'm just going outside. I may be some time.' Ho was never seen again. AVo knew he was going to bis death. It was tho act of a man and an English gentleman. On March 18 Scott's foot was badly frost-bitten. "Amputation," he says, "is the least I can hope for.' All the others' had foot trouble. On March 19 tho party reached a point; cloven miles from One "on where there was plenty of food. Scott and his companions had only two days food and one day's fuel. A raging blizzard held them prisoners for two days. The la-st entry, on March 29. states: "The blizzard is still raging. 1 In the quiet of their shelter Scott _ wrote, without faltering or erasure, his wellremembered message. The story of the finding of the bodies and tho search for Captain Oates s body is known.