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[00:05.14]Chapter 4 Food Depots
[00:10.78]The two ships,Terra Nova and fram,
[00:15.74]arrived in Antarctica,in January 1911,
[00:21.07]at the end of summer．
[00:24.54]The Englishmen and the Norwegians wanted to stay on the ice all winter．
[00:31.98]They wanted to be ready to go to the South Pole
[00:35.81]at the beginning of the next Antarctic summer．
[00:41.00]The dogs pulled the Norwegians'sledges．
[00:45.49]They ran quickly over the snow
[00:47.93]and pulled the big sledges from the ship onto the ice．
[00:53.92]The men ran beside them on skis．
[00:58.37]They put a big wooden house on the ice．
[01:04.03]The house was full of food,
[01:06.33]and skis,and sledges．
[01:10.49]They called it Framheim．
[01:15.00]Outside the house,the dogs lived in holes under the snow．
[01:21.72]When the house was ready,
[01:25.13]the men made their first journey south．
[01:30.60]Before the winter,they wanted to take a lot of food south,
[01:36.61]and leave it in depots．
[01:41.33]For the long journey to the Pole,
[01:44.07]they needed a lot of food,
[01:47.42]and they couldn't carry it all with them．
[01:52.09]On February 10th,five men,
[01:55.83]three sledges,eighteen dogs,
[01:59.64]and half a tonne of food left Framheim and went south．
[02:07.02]It was easy．The weather was warm for the Antarctic,
[02:12.44]between-7°Centigrade and-17°Centigrade．
[02:18.95]The snow was good,
[02:21.60]and the dogs and skis went fast．
[02:25.81]They went fifty or sixty kilometres every day．
[02:31.90]After four days they reached 80°South,
[02:37.05]and made the first depot．
[02:41.37]Amundsen made his depot very carefully．
[02:46.90]It was very important to find it again,next summer．
[02:52.82]So he put a big black flag on top．
[02:57.70]Then he put ten flags to the east of the depot-
[03:02.86]each flag half a kilometre from the next-
[03:08.12]and ten flags to the west．
[03:11.78]So there were flags for five kilometres to the left of the depot,
[03:17.73]and five kilometres to the right．
[03:23.54]Then they went back to Framheim,
[03:26.84]and took some more food south,
[03:29.59]this time to 82°South．
[03:36.29]This time it was harder．
[03:39.58]The temperature was sometimes －40°Centigrade,
[03:46.00]and there were strong winds with a lot of snow．
[03:51.43]The dogs and men were very tired,
[03:55.17]and the tents and boots were bad．
[03:58.99]At the second depot,
[04:01.97]they put out sixty flags,
[04:04.41]to help them find it again．
[04:08.16]They came back to Framheim on March 23rd．
[04:13.50]It was nearly winter in the Antarctic．
[04:16.92]Their ship Fram was far away now,
[04:20.22]near South America．
[04:23.31]They were alone on the ice．
[04:28.04]Oates went with Scott to make the first British depot．
[04:33.99]They left Cape Evans on January 25th．
[04:39.57]There were thirteen men,
[04:42.50]eight ponies,and twenty-six dogs．
[04:48.18]The dogs were faster than the ponies-
[04:51.66]they ran quickly over the top of the snow,
[04:55.71]but the ponies'feet went through it．
[04:59.97]Every morning the ponies started first,
[05:03.83]and the dogs started two hours later,
[05:08.01]because they ran faster．
[05:11.44]At night,the dogs made warm holes under the snow,
[05:17.06]but the ponies stood on top of the snow．
[05:21.32]It was －20°Centigrade．
[05:25.94]After fifteen days Oates talked to Scott．
[05:31.93]There was a strong wind,
[05:34.03]and the two men's faces were white with snow．
[05:39.40]'Three of these ponies are ill,Captain,'
[05:43.32]Oates said．'They can't go on．'
[05:48.43]'Don't be stupid,Oates,'Scott answered．
[05:52.99]'They're good strong animals-the best ponies on earth．'
[05:59.47]'Not these three,'Oates said．
[06:03.85]'They're ill,and unhappy,
[06:06.23]and now they can't walk．
[06:09.24]Let's kill them,and leave the meat here,in the snow．
[06:14.41]We can eat it,or the dogs can．'
[06:18.40]'Of course not!'Scott said angrily．
[06:22.41]'These ponies are our friends,
[06:25.55]they work hard for us．
[06:28.09]I don't kill my friends!'
[06:33.29]Three days later,two of the ponies were dead．
[06:39.12]Scott's men were slower than Amundsen's；
[06:43.37]it took them twenty-four days to get to 80°South．
[06:49.90]They made a big depot there,
[06:52.85]and put one large black flag on top of it．
[06:58.07]Then they went back to Cape Evans．
[07:02.98]Their camp was on an island in the ice,
[07:06.49]and the sea ice moved sometimes．
[07:10.93]There were holes in the ice,
[07:13.36]and black sea water under it．
[07:17.55]One day seven ponies went through the ice into the sea,and died．
[07:26.21]One motor sledge also went into the sea．