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Add MS 51035, f.39r, "For God's sake look after our people", Scott's last entry before...
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Add MS 51035, f.39r, "For God's sake look after our people", Scott's last entry before he died, Captain Scott's Diaries, Vol III, 1912 (pencil on paper)
"…we shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity but I do not think I can write more. R. Scott. Last entry. For God's sake look after our people."
Full title: SCOTT DIARIES. Vol. XII (ff. vi+42). Sledging diary ('Vol. III'); 18 Feb.-29 Mar. 1912. Add MS 51035.
Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912) and his four companions reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, just one month after their rival Norwegian party, led by Roald Amundsen.
Realising that they had been beaten they attempted to make it back to their supply base but the journey was dogged by misfortune and all the men died.
Edgar Evans suffered a fatal concussion in February, and in March Scott’s diary records the heroic end of Captain Lawrence 'Titus' Oates who, stricken with frostbite, walked out from the camp to his death, with the words, 'I may be some time'.
Scott and his two remaining companions were caught in a blizzard and perished only 11 miles from the next supply depot. In his last diary entry he recognises that there is no hope of survival. He writes letters to his family and friends but, perhaps most famously, his final sentence, ‘for God’s sake look after our people’ was reiterated in his last message to the nation.
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From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images