358 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [December 



Night. Camp No. 47. Bar. 21-18. T. -7°. I am so 

 replete that I can scarcely write. After sundry luxuries, such as 

 chocolate and raisins at lunch, we started oft well, but soon got 

 amongst crevasses, huge snowfields roadways running almost in 

 our direction, and across hidden cracks into which we frequently 

 fell. Passing for two miles or so along between two roadways, 

 we came on a huge pit with raised sides. Is this a submerged 

 mountain peak or a swirl in the stream? Getting clear of cre- 

 vasses and on a slightly down grade, we came along at a swinging 

 pace — splendid. I marched on till nearly 7.30, when we had 

 covered 15 miles (geo.) (i7/4 stat. ). I knew that supper was 

 to be a ' tightener,' and Indeed it has been — so much that I must 

 leave description till the morning. 



Dead reckoning, Lat. 85^50' S.; Long. 159° 8' 2'' E. 

 Bar. 21-22. 



Towards the end of the march we seemed to get into better 

 condition; about us the surface rises and falls on the long slopes 

 of vast mounds or undulations — no very definite system in their 

 disposition. We camped half-way up a long slope. 



In the middle of the afternoon we got another fine view 

 of the land. The Dominion Range ends abruptly as observed, 

 then come two straits and two other masses of land. Similarly 

 north of the wild mountains is another strait and another mass 

 of land. The various straits are undoubtedly overflows, and 

 the masses of land mark the inner fringe of the exposed coastal 

 mountains, the general direction of which seems about S.S.E., 

 from which it appears that one could be much closer to the Pole 

 on the Barrier by continuing on It to the S.S.E. We ought to 

 know more of this when Evans' observations are plotted. 



I must write a word of our supper last night. We had 

 four courses. The first, pemmican, full whack, with slices of 

 horse meat flavoured with onion and curry powder and thickened 

 with biscuit; then an arrowroot, cocoa and biscuit hoosh sweet- 

 ened; then a plum-pudding; then cocoa with raisins, and finally 

 a dessert of caramels and ginger. After the feast it was diflicult 

 to move. Wilson and I couldn't finish our share of plum-pud- 

 ding. We have all slept splendidly and feel thoroughly warm 

 — such is the effect of full feeding. 



Tuesday, December 26. — Lunch. Bar. 21-11, Four and 

 three-quarters hours, 6^ miles (geo.). Perhaps a little slow 



