hing home, we struck up
a song, and in a few seconds Moyes came running out. When he saw there
were four of us, he stood on his head.

As we expected, Moyes had never thought of Harrisson coming with me and
had quite given him up as dead. When a month had elapsed--the time for
which Harrisson had food--Moyes packed a sledge with provisions for
Harrisson, himself and the dogs and went out for six days. Then,
recognizing the futility of searching for any one in that white waste of
nothingness, he returned. He looked well, after his lonely nine weeks,
but said that it was the worst time he had ever had in his life. Moyes
reported that the Western party were delayed in starting by bad weather
until November 7.

The total distance sledged during our main summer eastern journey was
two hundred and thirty-seven miles, including thirty-two of relay work,
but none of the many reconnoitring miles. Out of seventy days, there
were twenty-eight on which the weather was adverse. On the spring depot
journey the travelling had been so easy that I fully expected to go four
hundred or five hundred miles eastward in the summer. It was therefore,
a great disappointment to be blocked as we were.

CHAPTER XXII THE WESTERN BASE--LINKING UP WITH KAISER WILHELM II LAND

by Dr. S. E. Jones

On our return from the Western Depot journey towards the end of October
1912, we found preparations completed for the long western trip, towards
Gaussberg in Kaiser Wilhelm II Land, which was discovered by the German
Antarctic Expedition of 1902. The departure was delayed for several
days, but came at last on November 7, Moyes bidding us adieu and wishing
us good luck.

The party consisted of Dovers (surveyor), Hoadley (geologist), and
myself (surgeon). We were hauling one sledge with rations for nine
weeks. Our course, which was almost due south lay over the glacier shelf
practically parallel to the sea-cliffs. The surface was good, and we
covered eleven miles by nightfall, reaching a point some two or three
miles from the rising land slopes. As the high land was approached
closer, the surface of the glacier-shelf, which farther north was
practically level, became undulating and broken by pressure-ridges and
crevasses. These, however, offered no obstacle to sledging.

Proceeding in the morning and finding that an ascent of the slopes ahead
was rendered impracticable by wide patches of ice, we turned more to
the west and steered for Junction Cor