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than a hundred yards, and it is snowing still. We got a watery- 

 glimpse of the sun about 9 ; but he's gone, though, as the 

 north side of the tent is dripping most, I suppose he's still 

 about. There's a constant rainy patter on the tent, but the 

 snow is so slight it would not matter if we could see where to 

 steer ! However, it's not hard work lying still here, and 

 Scott did it seven days ; we've only had two. 



" The barometer (29.45) is rising steadily, which denotes, 

 I think, no more strong wind at present. Our short, sharp 

 blizz was correlated with a very low barometer of 29.18, 

 whereas 29.80 is about the mean hereabouts. 



"There is no tide-crack off the Tongue, which is five 

 miles from its parent glacier, and therefore must be floating. 

 Also, as it projects a hundred feet above sea-level, it must be 

 500 feet thick, which is comforting. 



" We had lunch about two and saw blue sky to the east, 

 Erebus showing partly ; gradually the whole snow cloud blew 

 over en masse to the west, leaving blue sky and a bright sun. 

 We dug out the sledge, nothing of which showed, and got off 

 after Deb had taken a photo. 



" We could hardly get a move out of the sledge and finally 

 harnessed so as to beat out a bit of a track. The going was 

 awful. Never had such hard work, and with only one fairly 

 light sledge ! It pulled me flat on my face in the soft mushy 

 snow, and wet me half up to the waist tramping through it. 

 We managed to get around to the end of the Tongue and one 

 mile to the north, and then it was after 7 p.m., and I could 

 not stick it, nor could the others. We pitched camp in the 

 middle of North Bay. But our floorcloth and tent are dry, 

 which is a great comfort, and we had a fine seal-hoosh. The 

 trouble is that all our survey work will be blocked ; for two 

 miles' progress in three hours is deadly, and this snow is 

 universal. However, I'd rather have it now than earlier, 

 when we had two heavy sledges, for we couldn't possibly have 

 moved either ! Perhaps it will cement by to-morrow a bit. 

 The temperature is down to +13^° (after 27 or so) and the 

 barometer is still rising steadily. I feel a bit wet and will 

 turn in early. 



" The Tongue is very imposing from this (north) side, 

 being cut up by bays so deep that they seem to separate it 

 into islands. We hope to make the end of the Kar Plateau — 



