1875 CAPE HILGAKD. ( Jl 



water a quarter of a mile broad across which we were 

 obliged to ferry, our numbers necessitating three trips 

 with the small boat. We then sledged along the fairly 

 level-topped ice-foot until we came to the pitch of the 

 cape, where the piles of hummocks, pressed up the 

 previous night, prevented our getting on with the 

 sledge except at a great sacrifice of time. 



In the bay west of Cape Napoleon a small land floe 

 was still left, kept in its position by some grounded 

 icebergs, and I found that if I could force the ships 

 past the nip, near their present position, there was 

 nothing else to prevent our advancing with the next 

 ebb-tide. 



The raised beaches in the bay between Capes Hil- 

 gard and Napoleon, formed of limestone debris replete 

 with fossils, were very marked and evidently corre- 

 sponded with those on Norman Lockyer Island. A 

 fine glacier was visited in a valley on the east side of 

 the bay some two and a half miles from the sea. No 

 game of any sort was met with, and the country gene- 

 rally was as bare of vegetation as any I have ever come 

 across. Feilden obtained a considerable collection of 

 geological specimens of Upper Silurian age. Dr. Moss 

 and Lieut. May succeeded in shooting six ptarmigan 

 and one hare near the ship. Three dovekies were also 

 shot out of those feeding in the salt-water. 



6n the 15th, observing that the water-pool near 

 Cape Hilgard remained free of ice, all hands were em- 

 ployed in endeavouring to clear away the intermediate 

 ice resting against the shore ; but as fast as it was re- 

 moved the pressure from outside forced in the floe. When 

 the flood-tide made in the afternoon the ice was quieter, 



