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WITH SCOTT : THE SILVER LINING 



represented an earlier offshoot from the volcano of Erebus, 

 probably a subterranean flow ; while careful mapping later on 

 showed us that the little sheets of ice were not haphazard, but 

 were " glacierets " fed by blizzard snowdrifts. 



The most ingenious apparatus in the hut was due to 

 Clissold the cook. This was an electrical device to tell him 

 when the " bread was riz." He used to make the dough in 

 the galley and place it in a big pot, puncheon, or pan. This 

 was supported on a little trolley and stood at his bedside. 

 The dough mixed, Clissold turned into bed, and left the rest 

 to the yeast cells. 



When the dough rose sufficiently it pushed up a disc 



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which overbalanced a gutter. Down this ran a lead ball which 

 made contact and rang a bell ! Further, the bell actuated a 

 pulley and wire and made another contact whereby a red light 

 appeared at intervals above his head ! All this apparatus was 

 made in the hut, and we never found out where certain of the 

 "works" were hidden. Anyhow the bread was very 

 satisfactory. 



On the 17th April Scott took a party back by the same 

 route to the Discovery Hut. Scott, Bowers, and Crean 

 returned there, accompanied by Day, Nelson, Lashley, 

 Hooper, and Demetri. Debenham and 1 went in charge of 

 two ponies who were to pull the sledges as far as possible. 



