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spent a day waiting for the weather, and were prepared to 

 sit it out ; but the weather met us with an equal determina- 

 tion. Our provisions were limited, so we decided to start 

 next day in spite of fog. 



The morning was spent in preparations. None of us had 

 much to boast about in the matter of boots. I was wearing 

 Conway's, which were a quarter of an inch too short for 

 me ; Trevor-Battye had some old shooting-boots with small 

 mud nails ; we rigged up Bottolfsen in some old sea-boots, 

 into which we hammered some cricket spikes, found in 

 Trevor - Battye's canvas waders. There was still another 

 man to provide for, but we only intended to take him as far 

 as our sleeping-place, so I told him to carry an extra pair 

 of socks to pull over his boots. He did so, but as he put 

 them on immediately we landed, he arrived at the edge of 

 the ice with a pair of frilled woollen spats 1 and became 

 rather an anxiety on the glacier. Bottolfsen, having visions 

 of sport, insisted on carrying a gun in spite of our attempt 

 to dissuade him. Leaving the launch at three P.M. we landed 

 in the south-east corner of Goes Bay, which lies about half-way 

 along the southern margin of Horn Sound. Shouldering a 

 tent, a rug, and provisions for twenty-four hours, we started 

 in, nearly clue south, over the flat-raised beach, which gradually 

 merged inland into the terminal moraine of a large glacier. 



The previous afternoon I had ascended a small hill near 

 the coast, in order if possible to obtain a view of our peak, 

 but everything over five or six hundred feet high was 

 bound in fog, and I could only see the snout of a glacier, 

 which appeared to fill the upper part of a valley. This 

 glacier led in the direction in which, judging by the chart, 

 Mount Hedgehog should be. 



1 In Mr. Garwood's absence abroad I am seeing this through the press for him. 

 His handwriting is not of the most legible. The best the typewriter has been able 

 to make of this sentence is, "he aimed at the edge of the ice with a pair of pilled 

 wooled spots." The above is a merely conjectural emendation ! 



