chap, xiv ICE FJORD 201 



At eight o'clock (July 21) Gregory roused me, and we 

 wondered at the long sleep of about eighteen hours we had 

 enjoyed without a moment's interruption. Just then the 

 sun broke through clouds in the south-east, and we dis- 

 covered it was eight in the morning ! Our sleep had been 

 for six hours only. In due season Williamson went off 

 with the beasts and empty sledges to pick up Garwood's 

 camp and fossils at Waterfall Camp, and follow him to 

 Brent Pass, where they were to meet. 



Garwood spent the 20th collecting fossil reptiles from the 

 Triassic rocks on the Trident. He returned to Waterfall 

 Camp at one A.M. on the 21st. His journal describes him 

 as lonely, tired, and seedy, with damp in his inside. After 

 a sleep he packed up his tent, left it for Carl to bring on, 

 and walked over Brent Pass to the head of Advent Vale. 



" I was accompanied," he writes, " by a snow bunting, 

 who hopped beside me for half a mile, without the slightest 

 trace of fear, singing his sweet little song while I whistled 

 an obligato. As I waded the countless channels, which 

 rippled over the moraine-strewn flat at the foot of Booming 

 Glacier, I realised that in order to penetrate as far as possible 

 to the south, it would be better not to ascend the Baldhead, 

 but to follow a higher ridge, conducting farther east into 

 the heart of the glacier system, whence Booming Glacier 

 takes its rise. Stumbling over the loose moraine and wading 

 ankle-deep in liquid clay, I reached the foot of a smaller 

 glacier coming down from the south-west to which we gave 

 the name Baldhead Glacier. This was once tributary to 

 the larger glacier ; it formed the old lateral moraine by 

 which I had approached. Baldhead Glacier had now shrunk 

 back into its own valley, leaving a narrow passage between 

 its own retreating snout and the overhanging side of its 

 advancing neighbour. A glance at the piles of ice recently 

 fallen across this passage, decided me to keep up the lateral 



