tle corpses to a near
ice-house built of empty cases filled with ice."

To appreciate best the surrounding hereabouts one may as well give a
brief description of the Cape Adare and Robertson Bay environment. The
place on which the hut was built is a small triangular beach cut off from
the mainland by inaccessible cliffs. A fine bay, containing an area of
perhaps nine hundred square miles, lies to the westward, and south and
behind this the Admiralty Range of Mountains rises in snowy splendour to
heights of 10,000 feet or more; other ranges are visible far to the
westward, whilst black basalt rocks overhang the station.

Several wall-faced glaciers are visible, but according to Campbell none
are possible to climb on to, nor do they lead up to the inland plateau.
On this account the party were unable to accomplish any serious sledging
whilst landed here. Other things were undertaken, and the members did
excellent meteorological, geological, and magnetic work, while Campbell
himself made some good surveys. Priestley has added, greatly to our
geological knowledge, and he, with his previous Antarctic experience,
made himself invaluable to his chief. The Aurora observations show much
more variegated results than we got at Cape Evans, where, as pointed out,
there was a great absence of colour beyond pale yellow in the displays.

The principal drawback of the beach here was its covering of guano and
manure dust from the myriads of penguins and their predecessors. I had
gone ashore at Cape Adare as a sub-lieutenant on January 8, 1903, to
leave a record, and I remember that we had literally to trample on the
penguins to get across the beach to Borchgrevink's hut--how interesting
it all was, my first landing on this inhospitable continent: my
impressions left a wonderful memory of mouse-coloured, woolly little
young of the Adelie penguin--I even remember taking one away and trying
unsuccessfully to bring it up. It must have taken Campbell's crew a long
time to get accustomed to the pungent odour thereabouts. Levick dressed
the ground with bleaching powder to help dispel that dreadful odour of
guano before Campbell's men put down their hut floor.

There is little to be set down concerning the Cape Adare winter--the
routine much resembled our own winter routine at Cape Evans; it was much
warmer, however, and being six degrees farther north the sun left the
party nearly a month later and returned the same amount earlier; they had