leases the bamboo spring, which being attached to the trigger,
starts the gramophone in the sleeper's ear, and he turns out and stops
the tune; this arrangement works beautifully and can be timed to five
minutes."

Curiously enough Campbell's men sustained far more frostbites than we at
Cape Evans did: in all my four Antarctic voyages I have never been
frost-bitten beyond a touch here and there on the finger-tips working
instruments, yet I occasionally now get chilblains in an ordinary English
winter.

A short expedition was made by Campbell, Priestley, and Abbott on July
29, to determine the travelling condition and find out what sort of
surface would be met with for coastwise sledging to come when the season
opened. Speed worked out at little over seven miles a day on the outward
trip to Duke of York Island. The salt-flecked, smooth ice was heavier
going than much rougher stuff where pressure obtained.

On August 8 a small two-day geological expedition was undertaken, and
prepared to start on a more extensive journey westward; the party were
disappointed to find the ice had all blown out and left them
water-girdled; a blizzard of unusual violence followed the exit of ice,
and the storehouse roof was torn away.

It must have been a severe blow to the energetic Campbell that he was
denied serious sledging while quartered at Cape Adare. Minor expeditions
were undertaken and some useful information gleaned, but unsafe ice and
unsatisfactory conditions all round prevented any of the really long
journeys Campbell would otherwise have made.

The "Terra Nova" was sighted on January 4, and in two days Campbell, his
party and belongings were safely on board and proceeding along the coast
eager to try their fortunes farther South, Evans Coves in Latitude 75
degrees being the next objective. The ship was placed alongside the
Piedmont here on January 8, near a big moraine close north of the Coves.
A depot of provisions was established, and an arrangement was come to
between Pennell and Campbell that the latter should be picked up on
February 18. Reference to the sketch charts will show the part of
Victoria Land in which Campbell was now working.

It was proposed to sledge round Mount Melbourne to Wood Bay, and examine
the neighbourhood geologically and geographically. The sledge team found
some remarkable ice structures and new and interesting glaciers. They
had, a crop of small adventures, and found sandstone rock containin