*" GETTING TO KNOW THE MEN" 



Below Fiesso is the broad trough of Lavorgo closely paralleled 

 by the broad " dry valley " in the southern continent. 



Rirolo W&dr&no Piott* Fiesso Pr^to L&vorgo 



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Block diagrams illustrating the basins, gorges, and riegel in the Val Ticino 

 below Saint Gothard. (Cf. Taylor Valley, Antarctica.) 



On my way back from Italy I stopped for a few days with 

 the glaciologist Nussbaum at Bern, and explored the queer 

 drainage in the valleys near that city. In the last Ice Age all 

 this fertile country lay below the Rhone GJacier, and I was to 

 find that many of the features in Antarctica reproduced, in 

 the present, the past history of the Swiss scenery. 



1 reached London on the evening that Peary gave his 

 lecture in the Albert Hall. Mawson had given me his ticket 

 and I decided to go, though I had to appear in my touring 

 rig of puttees and peletin. I heard that Bernard Day — our 

 motor expert and lately with Shackleton — had the next seat. 

 It was a tremendous crowd and a very interesting lecture. 

 As is somewhat usual with Americans, he gesticulates more 

 than is common among .British speakers. He had just 

 received the medal (which was designed by Lady Scott) and 

 expressed his sense of the honour done him and the care 

 with which he would cherish this token of the Geographical 

 Society's esteem, when the medal dropped violently from his 

 hand amid audible amusement from the thousands comprising 

 his audience. However, he picked it up and proceeded with 

 his remarks with the greatest sang froid. Day and I were 

 much impressed by his method of relaying with dog teams, 

 and felt that he deserved full credit for his long-sustained 

 attack on the North Pole. Three years later I was to be 

 again in the Albert Hall to hear Commander Evans describe 

 the British conquest of the Pole ; but Bernard Day had now 

 settled " on the land " near my own home in Sydney, New 

 South Wales. 



Before I left England I had met most of the officers. 

 Bowers I first saw at dinner one evening with Captain Scott. 



