280 



WITH SCOTT : THE SILVER LINING 



that the wind is led gradually on to the Hut, else it would 

 surely have blown us into the sea. 



This blizzard was accompanied by relatively high tempera- 

 tures. It roared all that day, but after lunch, on 13th, I 

 write : "... it is getting cooler ; none of that oppressive 

 heat of +8° F. (24 degrees of frost), and is now much nicer 

 (— 7 ) ; so that the leaks have stopped, after damping Gran's 

 mattress considerably." The lunch was evidently cheese, so 

 that I confined my attention to brown bread, dripping, and 

 cocoa. We were able to leave the Hut in the afternoon, and 

 walked up to Bertram. Skua Lake was so brilliant, I thought 

 at first it had melted, but it was merely polished like plate- 

 glass by the furious drift. 



Teddie Evans had been engaged for some days on plotting 

 the chart of Dry Valley on the first western journey. He 



made a fine drawing, with 

 " form-lines " inserted, so 

 that the shape of the glacial 

 valley showed up splendidly. 

 Captain Scott, Evans, and 

 myself discussed the nam- 

 ing of the new glaciers, etc., 

 now first charted. We had 

 given some of them pro- 

 visional names on our 

 journey, and the Owner 

 chaffed me somewhat, but 

 said he didn't mind a bit. 

 There were two distinct 

 glaciers included in the Ferrar Glacier, which Scott had 

 named in 1903. He asked me if the one entering Dry 

 Valley was going to be described as a type ; and I said that 

 its exposed bed was probably unique in Antarctica. Then he 

 said, "We'll call it the Taylor Glacier." So that on 15th July 

 I became a cartographic entity ! 



One of the most interesting paragraphs in the German tome 

 through which 1 was laboriously wading tended to show that 

 the world was approaching another Ice Age rather than leaving 

 it behind. 



In the Swiss Alps the Germans have shown that there were 

 no less than four Ice Ages included under the last glacial 



The Twin Glaciers (copied from 

 diary, July 15, 191 1). 



