1911] SEE DGE (TRACKS 149 
for there was five miles of water between us and the hut. So 
we deviated with what speed we might to the south, gradually 
veering in the teeth of a young blizzard.’ 
In the morning we could see frost smoke rising from the 
water apparently for miles right across our track. In place of 
reaching the hut in one day we evidently had a long détour 
to make to get around the open water. We called this place 
‘Camp Had Again’ for obvious reasons, and started off, after 
digging out the sledges and tent, once more directly away from 
our objective. 
We pulled six miles south before lunch, leaving Hut Point 
behind us on the left. The end of the great bay seemed in 
sight now and I felt justified in bearing east a little. We were 
only half a mile from the water when we came on sledge tracks, 
and these puzzled us greatly. We thought they must have been 
made by a depot party but could see no depot. I wrote ‘It is 
not possible it has gone out, as undoubtedly some of the Barrier 
has?’ 
As a matter of fact these were the tracks of the rescue party 
who had tried to save the ponies when Bowers, Cherry-Garrard, 
and Crean went adrift only ten days before. In view of our 
experiences the next few days I was glad we did not know of this 
disaster. 
A strong drift was blowing when we broke camp, but we 
could see the sun and had bearings, so we moved round the 
open water to the north. After two miles we saw something 
black which turned out to be a fodder depot. We built it 
up, for it was nearly invisible, and left a note for the Depot 
Party, which was waste labour, for they had all returned a week 
before. 
The wind increased in force, but we kept on till noon, when 
we came to open water and a great crack in the Barrier. Here 
the surface rose several feet quite sharply and Wright nearly 
slipped in as we were crossing. The drift was getting very 
much worse and we could see nothing a few yards ahead. I felt 
this was a bad position and turned inland; we pulled about three- 
quarters of an hour and could not get any farther through the 
blinding snow. We managed to pitch the tent and then sat down 
to wait till the blizzard would let us move somewhere less ex- 
citing and farther from the breaking edge of the Barrier. Here, 
