Well, it is something to have got here." Scott still hoped to race Amundsen to the telegraph cablehead in Australia: "Now for a desperate struggle to get the news through first. I wonder if we can do it."[110][111] On 18 January 1912, they discovered Amundsen's tent, some supplies, a letter to King Haakon VII of Norway (which Amundsen politely asked Scott to deliver[112]) and a note stating that Amundsen had arrived there with four companions on 16 December 1911.[113]