138 WITH SCOTT: THE SILVER LINING 



Next morning before rising Wright remarked on the 

 severity of his exercise the day before, which had left him so 

 bathed in perspiration that he felt clammy all night. On 

 examining his sleeping-place, however, he found that some- 

 thing had blocked the stream by the tent, and its icy current 

 had been flowing under his bag most of the night. With the 

 temperature ten below freezing this hydropathic treatment 

 was by no means appreciated by him ! 



February 4, 191 1. — As we could not take the sledge beyond 

 the glacier, we packed up the tent and sleeping-bags with five 

 days' food and our instruments, and carried them down 

 towards the sea. Wright carried his pack in the Canadian 

 method by a " tump-line " round his forehead. He took the 

 theodolite. Evans wrapped his goods and the tent round the 

 tent poles and carried them like a standard over his shoulder. 

 Debenham and I took the food. I found as usual that the 

 Italian method of carrying a harp — a strap over the right 

 shoulder — suited my convenience best. Debenham copied 

 the Australian swagsman with a smaller bundle in front nearly 

 balancing a roll on his back. We took no cooker, and I left 

 my camera below the Riegel after taking some photographs of 

 the latter. 



We walked along the northern edge of the lake over a belt 

 of smooth ice about twenty yards wide. The water here was 

 very deep, especially where steep cliffs fringed the lake. 

 Towards the centre the ice soon became much broken, and 

 then a large portion of the centre of the lake was occupied by 

 silt and morainic debris. In fact, the deep water was pro- 

 bably controlled by the radiation from the dark rocks along 

 the shore. The valley was by no means steep-sided as a 

 whole, but there was evidently a well-defined shoulder terrace 

 about 2000 feet above the lake bed on the north and a less 

 marked one on the south. Above them the slope was 

 steeper. 



Running into the lake at the east end were several small 

 creeks. One I noticed particularly had cut a fine gully in the 

 moraine of the typical V shape. This was twenty feet deep, 

 and its debris was deposited as an alluvial fan or delta. I 

 mention this as an instance of typical water erosion in 

 Antarctica, though later we saw much larger examples. 



We had lunch at the east end of Lake Bonney, which 



