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wait. By good fortune some men rowed over at this time 

 from Advent Bay to fetch the winterers' stuff, and Dr. 

 Jeaffreson and his companions returned with them. On 

 the 25th, Dr. Jeaffreson and one of his companions went 

 back to Norway, leaving behind their artist, Mr. R. Huyshe 

 Walkey, who, after a long stay at Advent Point, returned to 

 Europe with Baron de Geer. 1 



Meanwhile the heavens had cleared and the evening was 

 brilliant, so that we could taste all the charm of the new 

 point of view. Not that there were many new hills in sight, 

 but the old ones were freshly combined and better seen. 

 This, for instance, is the point where the Temple, with its 

 long side somewhat foreshortened, shows best. Hence too 

 you look straight up all the length of Post Glacier, which 

 composes beside the Temple and draws back its great even 

 length most imposingly. If a man had nothing to do, he 

 might as pleasantly do it in fine weather sitting at this spot 

 as anywhere else in the summer world. 



After dinner I wandered off to the point of the delta, 

 where is a raised gravel bar, recently elevated from below 

 the waters. Gregory followed, intending to collect in and 

 about the small lagoon behind the bar. We began wading 

 streams, and so moved on from point to point, till it became 

 obvious that we had gone for a real walk instead of turning 

 into bed. We crossed the whole delta, sometimes in beds 

 of streams, sometimes on gravel spits, sometimes in soft mud, 

 but oftenest over mossy bogs, the mossiest we had anywhere 

 seen. Beyond the delta came the steep hill-side again, 

 with the hyperite cliff apparently faulted some way on. 



1 The story of the misfortune of this party with their boat at Cape Thordsen 

 found its way in an exaggerated form into the London press. It was stated that 

 their "walrus-boat" was "pinched on shore in the land water on July 16 near 

 the mouth of Dickson Bay by the heavy pack-ice," &c. The actual facts, as 

 above related, were confirmed to me by Mr. With, and by ice-master Bottolfsen of 

 the Expres. 



