Manneking. — On the Murcliison Glacier. 359 



Glacier, in honour of the present Governor of this colony. 

 Here we spent the night, wriggling into our oiled-calico 

 sleeping-bags, on a bed of small gi-avel in a hollow of the 

 moraine at the junction of the two glaciers, where, though 

 running some risk from falling stones from the ice-slopes on 

 two sides of us, we were protected from the cold breeze which 

 blew up the valley. 



We were early aroused in the morning by the persistent 

 attention of several keas, as they hopped around us and even 

 pecked at our sleeping-bags, so tame and unaccustomed to man 

 are they in these parts. Once more shouldering our torturing 

 swags, we proceeded on the western side of the moraine, and 

 ere long descried a third glacier (of the second order), nestling 

 in a comparatively low saddle on our left, and further ahead 

 still a fourth and very large tributary glacier, coming down 

 with a grand sweep into the main body of the Murchison. At 

 first we thought this glacier to be the Murchison itself, as it 

 appeared to compare somewhat with the maps ; but on cutting 

 our way up its gigantic lateral ice-slope we discovered our 

 error, for there, a mile away east across the moraine, lay the 

 clean ice of the glacier we had come to explore. The glacier 

 we were now on we named the Cascade Glacier, as its form 

 in its descent from the heights of Malte Brun resembles that 

 of a cascade. 



In an hour's time the clear ice was gained ; but we were 

 soon in trouble amongst a maze of crevasses on attempting to 

 cross to the opposite side. This system of crevasses appears 

 to be caused by the flow of the ice being faster on the w^estern 

 than on the eastern side, owing to the immense body of ice 

 brought into this portion by the Cascade Glacier and several 

 similar ones situated parallel to it, and farther north, on the 

 Mp't'j Brun Eange. 



The eastern side shows very little lateral moraine, for the 

 western declivities of the Liebig Eange do not carry such large 

 (j[uantities of ice as the slopes opposite, and denudation is 

 consequently not so great. This fact is worthy of notice, for a 

 similarity occurs in the case of the Tasman Glacier and the 

 western slopes of the Malte Brun Eange. I also understand 

 from Mr. Burnett that the eastern slopes of the Liebig Eange, 

 at the head of the Jollie Eiver, are clothed with considerable 

 glaciers, wlailst still further north (beyond Mount Jukes, which 

 di\'ides the watershed of the Jollie and Cass Elvers) the 

 Huxley and Faraday Glaciers supply the head- waters of the 

 Cass Eiver. 



After a futile attempt to cross these crevasses at right- 

 angles to their trend, we struck up the ridges of ice which lay, 

 like the leaves of a half-opened book, between them, until we 

 had reached their extremities, and then struck across to the 



