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but after going about a mile we made it out to be some black grit 
blown on to a conical piece of ice. On returning to the sledges 
we pulled in shore to try and get a better surface, but had to 
camp at 5 P.M. as Browning was so bad. Distance about 6 miles. 
We are about 1 mile from land, which appears to be low ice- 
covered foot-hills. 
October 23.—I was bad in the night and did not wake till 
6.30. The day was warmer, but I feel very cold and rather weak 
and slack. The light was bad, but we made fair progress. 
Passed inside a number of stranded bergs evidently broken off 
from the piedmont. About 4 P.M. we saw a seal near a stranded 
berg and we camped early, in order to kill and cut him up. 
There were tracks of several more near the berg, so I think we 
are coming to the land of plenty. A brain and liver hoosh did us 
all good. We are all feeling slack and stale. Distance 6 miles. 
We had to reduce to two biscuits per day owing to slow progress. 
October 24.—A lovely morning, clear and calm with a few 
clouds over the mountains. While we were packing the sledges 
Browning went to the seal hole, but there were none up. The 
surface was heavy crusted snow with belts of pressure. During 
the day we passed a large number of stranded bergs and any 
amount of seals up round them, many of them with young. 
Our route lay along a piedmont, evidently aground, judging 
by the steep slopes and crevasses in places. Soon after 4 P.M. 
we opened out a wide bay which I made out to be Tripp Bay. 
After this the surface improved. After camping, Levick and 
‘Abbott killed and cut up a seal. 
There was a curious line of stranded bergs and pressure run- 
ning parallel to the coast and about two miles off, which looks 
as if there might be a shoal there. Our distance to-day about 7 
miles. 
October 25.—Both Dickason and I had a bad night and I 
felt very cold when IJ turned out at about 5 A.M. We soon got 
‘ warm, however, for the snow drifts between the pressure were 
awful. We made out Tripp Island at the head of the bay in the 
afternoon. It has been a very tiring day, and as Browning was 
rather bad we camped at 4.30. Distance 7 miles. 
October 26.—A fine morning. We started away after break- 
fast with both sledges, while Priestley went into the bay on ski to 
look at Tripp Island and see if Professor David had left his 
