Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott
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William Burton Leading Stoker, R.N.
Bernard J. Stone ,, ,, ,, Angus McDonald Fireman. Thomas McGillon ,, Charles Lammas ,, W. H. Neale Steward. GLOSSARY _Barrier_. The immense sheet of ice, over 400 miles wide and of still greater length, which lies south of Ross Island to the west of Victoria Land. _Brash_. Small ice fragments from a floe that is breaking up. _Drift_. Snow swept from the ground like dust and driven before the wind. _Finnesko_. Fur boots. _Flense, flence_. To cut the blubber from a skin or carcase. _Frost_ _smoke_. A mist of water vapour above the open leads, condensed by the severe cold. _Hoosh_. A thick camp soup with a basis of pemmican. _Ice-foot_. Properly the low fringe of ice formed about Polar lands by the sea spray. More widely, the banks of ice of varying height which skirt many parts of the Antarctic shores. _Piedmont_. Coastwise stretches of the ancient ice sheet which once covered the Antarctic Continent, remaining either on the land, or wholly or partially afloat. _Pram_. A Norwegian skiff, with a spoon bow. _Primus_. A portable stove for cooking. |
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