162 SCOTT’S LAST EXPEDITION [NoveMBER 
On Sunday the 26th we camped amid a cluster of icebergs 
not far from a low rocky cape. 
It was very heavy pulling through the snow which had 
collected around the bergs. As we reached the screw pack at ~ 
the cape I wished to photograph the great cubes of sea ice thrown 
20 feet up on to the rocks by previous gales. Gran went ahead, 
and almost immediately cried out that Granite Harbour was in 
sight. I hastily climbed up through the granite blocks and there 
it was; we were right at it! This was Cape Roberts, and it 
formed the south extremity of the outer part of the harbour. 
We had arrived three days sooner than the coast charts had led 
us to expect, and who so joyful as we! 
Looking north-west we could see a large and deep bay, 
some ten miles across, very like New Harbour in appearance. 
It contained two inner fiord valleys—of which the southern is 
occupied by the Mackay Glacier and is much the larger. I took 
several panorama photos with Forde in the foreground collect- 
ing skua eggs. Or rather trying to, for they had not laid any 
yet, though many pairs were evidently considering the subject. 
Their nests—mere hollows two inches deep in the gravel—were 
ready, but they merely sat about on cold feet, and stretched 
their wings and squawked at us. 
There was a low snow-covered col across the cape and Forde 
found a feasible track over it which thus avoided the rough 
screw-pack off the cape. So I agreed to try an ° overland ’ route 
with the sledges. 
Now arose an interesting question. Where was the Rendez- 
vous Bluff photographed on page 154 in the ‘ Voyage of the 
Discovery’? After lunch—a midnight feast as we were now 
marching—we inspanned and made straight for a hanging gla- 
cieret we named the ‘ Spill-over.’ We did a long march to “ see 
round the corner.’ We crossed several working cracks and 
reached a small knob of granite beneath frowning ice cliffs. 
About here a huge bluff rose into view which we decided must 
be the Discovery Bluff. It looked rather higher than 500 feet 
and we saw it from another angle, but no other headland seemed 
at all similar. I wondered if we were in some other bay alto- 
gether, for it differed considerably from the Discovery position. 
We returned from First View Point for our other sledge. On 
our second trip it seemed as if we would never reach the Point, 
