Tuesday.

The garments not being dry this morning it was impossible to start until mid-day. Having provided ourselves with matches, a little oatmeal and crumbled biscuits, and the writer taking the blanket found in the hut, a fresh start to return to Trackton was made. Before 100 yards had been travelled the writer found that a feeling he had experienced all night was intensified by walking, and he was fearful of a return of paralysis of the lower limbs, for they had been almost totally paralysed some three years ago by reason of an accident which then happened to him. At any rate, he found page 15 it impossible to walk even on the easy part of the track, to say nothing of the harder part ahead, and to save having to stop on the way and perhaps jeopardise the safety of his companion also, he decided to return to the hut, while his companion, who was a stronger man and in better condition, went on to Trackton, from which place he promised to send relief. The writer, therefore, returned to the hut, arriving there about 3 o'clock, and having lit a fire and turned in to a bunk, he covered himself well with tents, sacks, clothing, &c., with the idea that by getting thoroughly warm, he would avoid the horrible paralysis which was making itself very prominent.