72 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [OCTOBER 



the salt-flecked ice. Once over the pressure we packed the 1 2-ft. 

 sledge and secured it on the ic-ft. 



Our total weight including sledges amounts to 1163 Ibs. 



The sledging ration we are taking is based on Shackleton's 

 ration adapted for coast sledging. 



We are convoying Levick and Browning as far as Warning 

 Glacier, where the former is going to take photographs. 



September 22. On this journey the surfaces were so bad 

 that we only managed to reach Cape Barrow, the western limit 

 of Robertson Bay. 



After our return we experienced a spell of bad weather until 

 the 22nd, when it cleared, so Levick started off again for Warn- 

 ing Glacier to get the photographs he had been unable to take 

 before. 



Priestley, Browning, and Dickason went with him, and the 

 party took provisions for a week. 



September 27. Levick and his party returned to-day and 

 reported bad weather and blizzards nearly the whole time. They 

 managed, however, to get a few photographs. I am arranging 

 to start on our western journey October i. Levick and Browning 

 will come as far as Cape Wood to take photographs. 



October 3. Weather bound until to-day, when, the weather 

 clearing in the afternoon, we transported our sledges and gear 

 over the pressure ice lying round the beach and left them three 

 miles south. 



October 4. A fine morning, so after a 5.30 breakfast we 

 started away with our sleeping-bags on our backs, and picking 

 up our sledges made pretty good progress over salt-flecked ice 

 with occasional belts of pressure. 



To show the superiority of our iron-runners over salt-flecked 

 ice, I may mention that two of us pulled the iron-runner sledge 

 weighing 1000 Ibs. and kept ahead of Levick's sledge with only 

 200 Ibs. and four men in the traces. About 12 miles out we 

 came to a lot of pressure, so I took my party consisting of 

 Priestley, Abbott, and Dickason and steered for Relay Bay, 

 telling Levick and Browning to go their own pace and make 

 the best of their way to the cave. 



We camped that night in the middle of Relay Bay and after 

 supper pulled the iron-runner sledge and depot to a cave dis- 

 covered on the north side of Point Penelope on a former journey, 



