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1911] CAVE QUARTERS es 
snow. We pulled out after breakfast and made for Sphinx 
Rock, where we camped at 1.30, just in time, as it came on to 
blow hard, with heavy drift. We saw several seals up along 
the side crack. 
October 14.—Weather bound all day in the tent, blowing a 
blizzard, with heavy drift, impossible to see five yards. 
October 15.—The wind dropped in the morning, but the 
weather remained overcast. Priestley went collecting and taking 
photographs, while the rest of us took one sledge half-way over 
to Point Penelope, as our load was very big after picking up 
the depots. 
October 16.—Weather overcast and snowing, but much 
warmer; we went round the bay collecting. It is impossible to 
get on to any of the glaciers from the sea ice, as they are all wall 
faced. 
October 17.—After getting some photographs of icebergs 
we started for Point Penelope. The forenoon was fine, but dur- 
ing our halt for lunch a heavy bank of cloud worked up from 
the N., and soon after resuming our march a S.E. wind sprang 
up, bringing snow and drift. The weather got so bad we had 
to leave one sledge about a mile out, and got into camp in the 
cave with the others just as the blizzard came on. In the cave 
we were as snug as could be, and finding some seal meat Levick 
had left, put it in the hoosh and had a great feed. 
October 19.—Temperature zero. Weather very thick. We 
laid out a depot off the Dugdale ice tongue which will do for our 
next trip into Robertson Bay. 
October 20.—Weather very thick; land on the other side 
of the bay being obscured, we had to shape course by compass 
to Cape Adare. Starting about 9, we pulled through the fog, 
getting into rather troublesome pack, till one o'clock, when we 
halted for lunch. During lunch the fog lifted, and by climbing 
a berg I was able to see a lead of smooth ice about half a mile 
to the northward. Getting on to this we made good progress, 
arriving back at the hut at 5 p.m. A good many seals were up, 
and about two miles from home we came on the first party of 
penguins. 
After our return from this second coast trip the sea ice 
became too rotten to be trustworthy, even in Robertson Bay, 
