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ing glacier which lay like a great white mantle flung on the 
northern wall of the Ferrar Valley. To reach this side glacier 
we had to cross a much weathered portion of the Ferrar’s sur- 
face. Large dome-covered ponds into which we fell at frequent 
intervals made one of us remark, * Just like a promenade on the 
roof of the Crystal Palace.’ 
As usual the rock slopes were fringed by a colonnade of 
gigantic pinnacles thirty feet high separated by narrow crevasses. 
The sun glistening on the icy minarets and beautiful icicles made 
a most impressive sight. Beyond this we soon reached the talus 
or débris slopes below the ‘ Double Curtain’ glacier. A stiff 
climb up this brought us to the snout of the tributary, and we 
found that this ‘ mantle of ice’ ended in a vertical face forty feet 
thick. While Wright and Debenham investigated this region, 
I climbed up 2500 feet and stood on the shoulder of the Kukri 
Hills. 
A wonderful panorama was spread out before me which 
was especially striking to the south-west. Here jutted out the 
three grand gables—like the roof of a Gothic cathedral—which 
were so appropriately named the Cathedral Rocks. Below this 
we were to leave our first depot. 
As we returned to the tent some two miles off we came across 
several parties of Emperor penguins stolidly awaiting the end 
of their moulting season. They probably totalled one hundred. 
Only one individual was garbed in new and shining raiment, and 
him I slew in preparation for a change of diet if our appetite 
failed on a pemmican régime. 
All next day we pulled steadily up the glacier to the west, 
encouraged by Evans’s opinion that we should meet better sledg- 
ing surfaces higher up the glacier. 
On the 30th we had very heavy going up the broad ice undu- 
lations and about noon got among the crevasses. We all slipped 
in at various intervals, but they were quite narrow and gave 
us no trouble. The snow was a foot thick in many places and 
alternated with ‘ glass-roof’ ice into which we fell frequently. 
However we kept on till 9 P.M., when we reached the big 
moraine below Cathedral Rocks, and there made our depot as 
Captain Scott had advised. 
Above our depot the slope was steeper, but we had only half 
the load to pull, and towards 6 P.M. on the next evening we 
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