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the Corner Glacier, getting there about 5 p.m. After hoosh we 
left camp standing and climbed the glacier, which proved a very 
easy job, as, although steep and broken, the séracs are worn 
smooth and many of the crevasses filled in, which looks as if 
there was very little movement now. 
Arriving at the top of the first icefall we found ourselves 
on rather a steep broken surface, the valley running in a north- 
westerly direction for a few miles, where it was fed by several 
steep glaciers or ice cascades from the heights. It would have 
been interesting to follow this glacier up, but the route was 
quite impossible for a sledge and we returned to camp footsore 
and disappointed. 
January 31.—Fog, snow, and then drift kept us in our tent 
till one o’clock, when, the snow easing up a little, we marched 
for the moraines of the Priestley Glacier. I had now given up 
all hope of getting through to Wood Bay this year, our time 
being too short to get over by the Boomerang Glacier, which 
I consider the only practicable route for a sledge, so we turned 
our attention to the Priestley Glacier, on whose moraines 
Priestley hoped to find some more fossil wood. 
We camped about 6 on the southern moraine. While so 
doing Dickason caught sight of Levick and his party heading 
for the Corner Glacier. After some difficulty we managed to 
attract their attention and they pulled over and camped near us. 
Levick had apparently misunderstood my instructions, and 
waited for me at Cape Mossyface, then seeing his mistake he 
headed for Cape Sastrugi across the mouth of the Melbourne 
Glacier and crossed a maze of crevasses. He says, ‘ Getting 
under way about 10, we marched till 12.30 over fairly good 
surface. After that we got into a perfect net-work of crevasses. 
They were mostly snow-bridged, and had we not had ski on we 
could never have got over, as we could break holes in them in 
places with our ice-axes. It was 7.30 before we found a place 
where there was a small space sufficiently free from crevasses 
to enable us to camp. One of the snow bridges we had to cross 
broke under the weight of the sledge, but only just under the 
bows. Had she gone down altogether the result might have been 
serious. After that we relayed, taking half our load at a time.’ 
February 1.—We decided to put in the rest of our time 
collecting from the moraines and foot-hills north of where we 
