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the other. Through this we carried our packs; through this in 
the other direction the seals must have laboriously crawled to 
die far inland. 
We could not see the sea, but found the defile occupied by a 
frozen lake a mile long. There were dry gravelly banks around 
this lake and here we pitched the tent. We had brought no 
floor-cloth, but after the wet and icy floor of the ‘Alcove’ camp 
where Wright had slept in a pool of water three inches deep—we 
found the warm gravel most comfortable. We had our frugal 
meal, washed down by cold water from the lake adjacent. The 
latter was distinctly medicinal and had no outlet, so ignoring 
climatic differences we unanimously christened it Lake Chad. 
I was quite worried to know what had become of the broad 
stony valley which Shackleton’s men had seen from the coast in 
1908, and wondered if we were side-tracked in some tributary 
valley. So after dinner P.O. Evans—who was always eager for 
extra work—accompanied me to the top of the ridge immediately 
south of the tent. It was a stiff ascent of 1600 feet to a flat bare 
expanse obviously planed by bygone glaciers. To my surprise 
I saw that a much larger rounded valley lay immediately north 
of this ridge, but this ‘ Round’ Valley, unlike the defile, did not 
connect with the Taylor Glacier. To the east some ten miles 
beyond a broad débris-strewn plain lay the sea, and in the far 
distance we could see the glaciers on the slopes of Erebus and 
the pyramid of Beaufort Island. 
Early on the 5th Evans and I started for the coast, while 
Debenham and Wright investigated the rocks and glaciers near 
the defile. We proceeded S.E., passing several tributary gla- 
ciers, and-had to cross many streams running across the plain 
from the southern wall. We reached a suitable station on the 
eastern slopes of the Kukri Hills and I took a round of angles 
with the theodolite which linked Dry Valley to Ross Island. We 
got back at nine o’clock and found that Debenham had collected 
many interesting minerals from the marble outcrops of the 
defile. 
Next morning Wright and I ascended the Riegel which so 
nearly barred the valley. We climbed 2400 feet and then walked 
to the top of the scarp facing up the valley to the west. So tem- 
pestuous was the wind that we could not stand against it, much 
less use the theodolite. At last there came a lull, and almost be- 
