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finally left Cape Evans and proceeded in the Terra Nova to Cape Royds, where a depôt of specimens left by Priestley's party on the Erebus journey was embarked.
We then steamed up the Sound towards Hut Point until brought up by the fast ice which still stretched out for nearly ten miles from the southern shores of McMurdo Sound.
Early on January 20 Atkinson set out with a party of seven to erect a cross in memory of our lost companions. It had been constructed by Davies of jarrah, an Australian wood.
This cross, 9 feet in height, now stands on the summit of Observation Hill, overlooking the Great Ice Barrier and in full view of the Discovery winter quarters.
in
memoriam
Capt. R. F. Scott, R.N.
Dr. E. A. Wilson, Capt. L. E. G. Oates, Ins. Drgs., Lt. H. R. Bowers, R.I.M.
Petty Officer E. Evans, R.N.
who died on their
return from the
pole. march
1912
to strive, to seek,
to find,
and not to
yield
The line chosen from Tennyson's 'Ulysses' was suggested by Cherry-Garrard. Atkinson's sledge team consisted of those who had taken part in the search for Captain Scott.