nd we felt very anxious to visit this new
find. As it was in Stillwell's limited territory we left it to him.

According to the rhymester it was:

A rock by the way-
A spot in the circle of white-
A grey, craggy spur plunging stark through the deep-splintered ice.
A trifle! you say, but a glow of warm land may suffice
To brighten a day
Prolonged to a midsummer night.

After leaving Aladdin's Cave, our sledge-meter had worked quite
satisfactorily. Just before noon, the casting attaching the
recording-dial to the forks broke--the first of a series of break-downs.
Correll bound it up with copper wire and splints borrowed from the
medical outfit.

The wind died away and the sail was of little use. In addition to this,
we met with a slight up grade on the eastern side of the depression,
our rate diminishing accordingly. At 7 P.M. the tent was pitched in
dead calm, after a day's run of fifteen miles with a full load of almost
eight hundred pounds--a record which remained unbroken with us till near
the end of the outward journey. Looking back, the nunatak and bergs were
still visible.

Both parties were under way at 8 A.M. next day (November 19) on a calm
and sunny morning. The course by sun-compass was set due east.

At noon I took a latitude "shot" with the three-inch Cary theodolite.
This little instrument proved very satisfactory and was easily handled
in the cold. In latitude 67 degrees 15' south, forty-six and a half
miles east of the Hut, we were once more on level country with a high
rise to the north-east and another shallow gully in front.

A fog which had been moving along the sea-front in an opaque wall
drifted over the land and enveloped us. Beautiful crystals of ice in the
form of rosettes and small fern-fronds were deposited on the cordage of
the sail and mast. One moment the mists would clear, and the next, we
could not see more than a few hundred yards.

We now parted with Stillwell, Hodgeman and Close, who turned off to a
rising knoll--Mount Hunt--visible in the north-east, and disappeared in
the fog.

After the halt at noon the sastrugi became much larger and softer. The
fog cleared at 2 P.M. and the sun came out and shone very fiercely.
A very inquisitive skua gull--the first sign of life we had seen thus
far--flew around the tent and settled on the snow near by. In the calm,
the heat was excessive and great thirst attacked us all the afternoon,
which I attem