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the Corner Glacier, getting there about 5 P.M. After hoosh we 

 left camp standing and climbed the glacier, which proved a very 

 easy job, as, although steep and broken, the seracs are worn 

 smooth and many of the crevasses filled in, which looks as if 

 there was very little movement now. 



Arriving at the top of the first icefall we found ourselves 

 on rather a steep broken surface, the valley running in a north- 

 westerly direction for a few miles, where it was fed by several 

 steep glaciers or ice cascades from the heights.- It would have 

 been interesting to follow this glacier up, but the route was 

 quite impossible for a sledge and we returned to camp footsore 

 and disappointed. 



January 3 1 . Fog, snow, and then drift kept us in our tent 

 till one o'clock, when, the snow easing up a little, we marched 

 for the moraines of the Priestley Glacier. I had now given up 

 all hope of getting through to Wood Bay this year, our time 

 being too short to get over by the Boomerang Glacier, which 

 I consider the only practicable route for a sledge, so we turned 

 our attention to the Priestley Glacier, on whose moraines 

 Priestley hoped to find some more fossil wood. 



We camped about 6 on the southern moraine. While so 

 doing Dickason caught sight of Levick and his party heading 

 for the Corner Glacier. After some difficulty we managed to 

 attract their attention and they pulled over and camped near us. 

 Levick had apparently misunderstood my instructions, and 

 waited for me at Cape Mossyface, then seeing his mistake he 

 headed for Cape Sastrugi across the mouth of the Melbourne 

 Glacier and crossed a maze of crevasses. He says, ' Getting 

 under way about 10, we marched till 12.30 over fairly good 

 surface. After that we got into a perfect net-work of crevasses. 

 They were mostly snow-bridged, and had we not had ski on we 

 could never have got over, as we could break holes in them in 

 places with our ice-axes. It was 7.30 before we found a place 

 where there was a small space sufficiently free from crevasses 

 to enable us to camp. One of the snow bridges we had to cross 

 broke under the weight of the sledge, but only just under the 

 bows. Had she gone down altogether the result might have been 

 serious. After that we relayed, taking half our load at a time.' 



February i. We decided to put in the rest of our time 

 collecting from the moraines and foot-hills north of where we 



