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WITH SCOTT : THE SILVER LINING 



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where we were about 300 

 feet up, and so moved east 

 down the other slope. We 

 reached another lake nearly 

 a mile long with a splendid 

 gravelly shore, on which I 

 decided to pitch the tent. 

 We had brought no floor- 

 cloth ; but after the wet and 

 icy floor in the " alcove ' 

 we found the warm gravel 

 most comfortable. 



We had a frugal meal 

 of biscuit, butter, and cold 

 water. Our beverage from 

 the lake was distinctly 

 medicinal, and as the latter 

 had no outlet we called it 

 Lake Chad. 



I was distinctly troubled 

 over the topography of the 

 day's march. We had left 

 a huge open valley — a suit- 

 able outlet for a large flow 

 of ice like the Taylor Glacier 

 — and had arrived at a 

 narrow defile completely 

 blocked by the tributary 

 Suess Glacier. We reckoned 

 we must be near the sea ; 

 but where was the large 

 open moraine-strewn valley 

 described by Professor 

 David in 1908 ? I won- 

 dered if we had got into an 

 unimportant tributary and 

 missed the main outlet of 

 the valley altogether ! So 

 after dinner Evans and I 

 made straight for the top of 

 the ridge (immediately south 



