82 SCOTES LAST EXPEDITION [JANUARY 
light load made good progress. We made a big sweep round 
Cape Sastrugi to try and avoid the crevasses, but without success. 
The afternoon was hot and muggy, and when we camped 
that night we were wet with perspiration. After supper I went 
out with Priestley to collect, and the sun being hot I took off 
my vest, and, turning it inside out, put it over my sweater, where 
it dried beautifully. I remarked to Priestley at the time that this 
ought to bring me luck, and sure enough, immediately afterwards 
I found a sandstone rock containing fossil wood, the best speci- 
men as yet secured by the party. 
January 28.—Blowing hard from the N.W., with drift, but 
clear sky. The temperature being warm, the drift made every- 
thing very wet. After breakfast Priestley hunted for fossils, 
while I got another round of angles. We then marched, edging 
over to the northern moraines, on which we camped that night. 
January 29.—A beautiful day, but no sign of the other party. 
After breakfast we started, and crossing moraine, steered for 
what we called ‘ Corner Glacier,’ a small steep glacier whose 
course lay more on our route for Wood Bay. The going was 
easy, and we camped that evening on the north lateral moraine, 
which lies at the foot of a steep scree descending from the 
mountains. The moraine was a very large one, with a number 
of conical heaps and with lakes in all the little valleys. The 
noise of running water from a lot of streams sounded very odd 
after the usual Antarctic silence. Occasionally an enormous 
boulder would come crashing down from the heights above, 
making jumps of from 50 to 100 feet at a time. 
January 30.—Another fine morning, so after breakfast we 
started for the south end of ‘ Black Ridge,’ from which place 
we could get a view up the Priestley Glacier. Arriving there 
about 1 o'clock we found we were cut off from the moraine 
by a barranca from 40 to 50 feet deep. The glacier itself 
seemed an important one, judging by the disturbance it made 
in the piedmont where it flowed in, large undulations and big 
crevasses extending many miles out. 
Although not so steep as Corner Glacier, it was much more 
crevassed, but what decided us to try Corner Glacier was that 
the Priestley Glacier curved from a S.W. direction, which would 
have taken us off our course. Accordingly, after I had secured 
a round of angles, we steered for the foot of the icefalls of 
