ht._

Erebus and Land's End from the Sea-ice. 224
_From a photograph by C. S. Wright._

Erebus from Great Razorback Island. 224
_From a photograph by F. Debenham._

Two Emperor Penguins. 234
_From a photograph by C. S. Wright._

PLATE II. A panoramic view of Ross Island from Crater Hill,
looking along the Hut Point Peninsula, showing some of
the topography of the Winter Journey. 236
_From photographs by F. Debenham._

Camping after Dark. 246
_From a sketch by Dr. Edward A. Wilson._

Camp work in a Blizzard: passing the cooker into the tent. 256
_From a sketch by Dr. Edward A. Wilson._

A procession of Emperor Penguins. 264
_From a photograph by C. S. Wright._

The Knoll behind the Cliffs of Cape Crozier. 264
_From a photograph by F. Debenham._

The Barrier pressure at Cape Crozier, with the Knoll. Part of
the bay in which the Emperor Penguins lay their eggs is
visible. 266
_From a photograph by C. S. Wright._

The Emperor Penguins nursing their Chicks on the Sea-ice,
with the cliffs of the Barrier behind. 268
_From a sketch by Dr. Edward A. Wilson._

Mount Erebus and detail of Ice-pressure. 280
_From photographs by C. S. Wright._

Down a Crevasse. 290
_From a sketch by Dr. Edward A. Wilson._

MAPS

From New Zealand to the South Pole. lxiv
Hut Point. From a sketch by Dr. Edward A. Wilson. 128
Cape Evans and McMurdo Sound. 194
The Winter Journey. 294

INTRODUCTION

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having
a bad time which has been devised. It is the only form of adventure in
which you put on your clothes at Michaelmas and keep them on until
Christmas, and, save for a layer of the natural grease of the body, find
them as clean as though they were new. It is more lonely than London,
more secluded than any monastery, and the post comes but once