This is from a Facebook site called Shackleton’s Endurance: 1902: DISCOVERY AT MADEIRA

Scott’s Antarctic expedition aboard Discovery anchored off Funchal, Madeira, on 14 August, 1902. Getting mail at the stop-off ports was somewhat competitive amongst the men of the expedition and it was Edward Adrien Wilson who won out at Madeira. He received letters from Oriana, his wife of only about a month, and it made him ‘intensely happy’.

The directors of the Union-Castle Line had left a small amount of coal for the expedition at Funchal and Scott had also hoped to have some small repairs done whilst there. It was, however, a festival day at Funchal so the expedition’s progress was slightly delayed. Discovery was back at sea by the afternoon of 16 August and it was there that the men say goodbye to Hugh Robert Mill, geographer and polar expert, who had accompanied the expedition as far as Madeira.

Also Dr Hugh Robert Mill, a noted oceanographer and meteorologist sailed with Discovery as far as Madeira to help with the science programme. He became good friends with Ernest Shackleton during the voyage and later remembered,