i9"l A GLISSADE DOWN 245 



After our return to camp we rested in our bags for a few 

 hours, and then struck camp and glissaded down the 2000 feet 

 till we rejoined Debenham and Dickason, covering in a few min- 

 utes a distance that had taken us three or four hours on our up- 

 ward way. During our absence the latter had made good use 

 of their time, finishing the survey of the old crater and collecting 

 from moraines left by an ancestor of the crater glacier. 



We spent the night camped here, and the next morning pro- 

 ceeded on our way down the mountain, using ice axes in rope 

 grummets at the after end of the sledge as brakes and making 

 such good way that the same day we picked up all our depots, 

 and camped within striking distance of Hooper's Shoulder, as 

 we afterwards named the Southern Nunatak, in time for a late 

 lunch. 



In the afternoon Debenham, Abbott, and Hooper and I 

 walked over to the shoulder, photographed it and collected from 

 it, and by 6 P.M. we were back in camp. 



The final descent was delayed until the i6th by bad weather, 

 but on that date we pulled as near Cape Royds as we could take 

 the sledges, and from there packed our own bags and such equip- 

 ment as we required to Shackleton's Hut, where I reported to 

 Lieutenant Campbell and gave him an outline of the trip. 



