i88 NEAREST THE POLE 



an island, and the so-called "spits" from McClintock 

 Bay on, are true glaciers. 



The formation this side of Cape Alexandra is prob- 

 ably the same. 



In this camp we were at the west coast "corner" as 

 it were, this Cape Fanshawe Martin being in the same 

 latitude as Hecla, and the cape next ahead of us the 

 same latitude as Joseph Henry, then the coast trends 

 more rapidly to the south. 



I felt that from here I ought to make Aldrich's 

 "Farthest" in four more marches, possibly in three. 



From Cape Fanshawe Martin the snow was deeper 

 than ever, and this combined with fog and snow 

 squalls, made the march not particularly pleasant. 

 We came along fairly well, however, and with any luck 

 at all, I felt that we should make Aldrich's "Farthest" 

 in two more comfortable marches. I did much 

 more than my share of breaking a trail on this march, 

 owing to the fact that my Eskimos could not keep a 

 straight course in the fog. The glacier which we fol- 

 lowed along, had a pronounced tidal crack delimiting 

 its front, and outside of this the ice was pushed up in 

 a great rounded ridge, a terminal moraine of ice in fact. 

 It looked very much as if getting on to a coast with a 

 different exposure (west instead of north) was going 

 to result in quite different general characteristics. 



We were now in Yelverton Bay, the last great in- 

 dentation crossed by Aldrich, and the snow about our 

 camp was so deep and heavy, that I decided to go 

 straight out to the edge of* the ice-foot, and follow it. 



This promised several advantages — first, better going 

 as the snow is almost always deeper in the bays than 



