Ka cika wannan magana: Don ci gaba da shirinsa, Stackhouse ya sayi tsohon jirgin ruwa na Scott "Discovery" daga Kamfanin Hudson's Bay na £ 9,500 <unk> wani ɓangare na farashinsa na asali na £ 51,000 <unk> kuma ya biya ajiya na £ 1,000. Stackhouse ya ba da sanarwar cewa a lokacin binciken "Discovery" zai zama kyaftin Arthur Harbord, wanda ya kasance na biyu a kan "Nimrod" a
Shackleton na 1907 <unk> 09 tafiya. Duk jami'ai da masana kimiyya za su yi aiki ba tare da albashi ba. Stackhouse ya fitar da sunaye da dama wadanda suka ba da kansu don tafiyarsa: Lieut. Richard Garsden na Royal Indian Marine zai zama babban jami'in; Lieut. R. Beatty, kuma daga RIM da kuma dan uwan Admiral Beatty, zai zama jami'in sufuri; Ubangiji Congleton da kuma mai ba da labari mai suna William Forbes-Sempill (wanda aka sani da Master of Sempill) zai shiga ma'aikatan kimiyya. Stackhouse yana fatan samun sabis a matsayin mai kula da jirgin ruwa na Tom Crean, wanda ya yi aiki tare da Scott a duka tafiyarsa ta Antarctic. Crean, duk da haka, ya sadaukar da kansa ga Shackleton. Tawagar ta sami babban tallafi daga Sir Clements Markham, tsohon shugaban RGS mai tasiri; a cewar Markham, "Duk waɗanda ke da zuciyar ci gaba da kyawawan al'adun binciken Burtaniya za su shiga cikin fatan samun nasarar wannan kamfani". Sakataren RGS, John Scott Keltie, bai burge shi ba; bai yi la'akari da tsare-tsaren Stackhouse ya zama mai yiwuwa ba, kuma ya hana Ofishin Ofishin Ofishin.