ntly the ice-covered "high-land" observed by Professor Drygalski
(German Expedition, 1902) from his balloon.--ED.

As soon as camp was struck the march was resumed direct for what every
one thought was a rocky outcrop, though nearer approach proved it to
be merely the shady face of an open crevasse. The same course was
maintained and the ridge of ice that runs down to the western point of
Depot Bay was soon close at hand. From its crest we could see a group of
about a dozen rocky islands, the most distant being five miles off the
coast. All were surrounded by floe. Descending steeply from the ridge
into a valley which ran out to the sea-cliffs, we pitched camp for
lunch.

The meal completed, Hoadley and I descended to the edge of the glacier
in order to see if there were a passable route to the sea-ice. Crossing
wide areas of badly crevassed ice and neve during a descent of nine
hundred feet, we reached the sea-front about one and a half miles
from the camp. Below us there was a chaos of bergs and smaller debris,
resulting from the disintegration of the land-ice, which were frozen
into the floe and connected to one another by huge ramparts of snow.
Following a path downward with great difficulty, we approached a small
berg which was discovered to be rapidly thawing under the action of the
heat absorbed by a pile of stones and mud. The trickling of the falling
water made a pleasant relief in the otherwise intense silence. As it
seemed impossible to haul sledges through this jumble of ice and snow,
Hoadley suggested that he should walk across the floe and make a brief
geological examination of at least the largest islet. I therefore
returned to the camp and helped Dovers take observations for longitude
and magnetic variation.

Hoadley returned at 9 P.M. and reported that he had seen an immense
rookery of Emperor penguins near the largest islet, besides Adelie
penguins, silver-grey, Wilson and Antarctic petrels and skua gulls. He
also said that he thought it possible to take a sledge, lightly laden,
through the drifts below the brink of the glacier.

Accordingly in the morning the eleven-foot sledge was packed with
necessaries for a week's stay, although we intended to remain only for
a day in order to take photographs and search for specimens. Erecting
a depot flag to mark the big sledge, we broke camp at midday and soon
reached the sea-front. Our track then wound among the snow-drifts until
it emerged from the broken