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WITH SCOTT : THE SILVER LINING 



For the purpose of my survey I laid out a base-line about 

 a mile long on the bay ice. From the known length of this, 

 as measured by the sledge-meter, and angles from the two 

 ends it was, of course, possible to determine the distance of 

 any visible point. Each of these three points forms a station 

 to which others may be linked ; and indeed, in exactly this 

 manner is a " triangulation " carried out. 



On the 1 6th we started off to examine and survey the 

 western coast of the harbour. Here the Mackay Glacier 

 entered the sea, chiefly by the great tongue, but also by huge 

 ice cliffs to the south, and by the new glacier in the south- 



1/fON -> 



$100' 



J?e wdrop 



Sketch-map of region near the Pevil's Punch Bowl, December, 191 1. 



west corner. We headed for a striking cape which projected 

 from the glacier like a black hand stretched forth from a 

 snowy cuff of glacier. We called this promontory Cuff Cape. 



My finger was very painful, and the swelling now extended 

 right through my right hand. Luckily I could pull in 

 harness as well as ever, but for many nights I had no sleep, 

 and I could do little or nothing in the way of making records 

 during the day. 



However, I became a fairly expert writer with my left 

 hand in the course of time, but it was very galling to be 

 incapacitated in almost the most interesting part of our 

 journey. 



