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He donned them with joy, and they now hung in graceful 

 folds in place of being as stiff as stove-piping. Every one 

 laughed when he was caught solemnly dancing to the pianola 

 in them ! 



The one great lack on our previous journey had been 

 strong soles to our boots. " Titus electrified us by saying 

 that he had a stock of hobnails. I offered him five pairs of 

 socks for them, or anything he liked. He enjoyed this 

 hugely, and finally said, ' Well, I'm interested in a military 

 magazine. If you'll write a five-page article on "Physiography 

 for Soldiers," you can have them ! ' I agreed willingly ; but 

 my visions of a boxful were unfulfilled. There were barely 

 enough for two soles. 



"The western trippers returned early on the 29th. They 

 had finished up with a stiff day, doing twenty miles in very 

 bad weather. They had got across in two days and four 

 hours. The dep6t on Butter Point was invisible, bar one 

 tin ! No staff or flag. They dumped our two cases on top. 

 (Birdie counsels taking an extra tank for biscuits.) The 

 Owner thinks the south tongue of the Ferrar is due to a 

 tributary glacier, but they didn't go near it. Then up to the 

 Cathedral Rocks. Here they found an apparent movement 

 of a foot in C. S. W.'s stakes. Of course the glacier must 

 move to keep the end of the tongue stationary {i.e. ablation 

 replaced), but this is an important amount of corroboration. 

 Then they returned and coasted round to Dry Valley. There 

 is a huge icefoot here, probably preserved by the sheltered 

 position of these cliffs. They climbed up the Kukri Hills 

 near where Evans and I put Station I., and saw the Taylor 

 Glacier, etc., quite well. Then across to Cape Bernacchi. 

 Here they got some kenyte and were much bucked, but we 

 also got much of it further west in Dry Valley. They marched 

 about twenty miles north and saw a huge berg. This had a 

 stake on it, and * B. A. E. Expedition ' on a board. They 

 found it was our glacier tongue, which had drifted across to 

 this position, about seventy miles to the north-west ! Beyond 

 was Dunlop Island, sixty feet high and half a mile long. Many 

 rolled pebbles on it and raised beaches. The Owner got a 

 good specimen of granite, showing rounded erosion above 

 and angular below, where it was bedded in the beach. 



" Near here there was a cliff of schist-limestone with quartz 



