I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.