2 NEW LAND. 



' During the following days we saw nothing of land, until the 

 evening of April 20, when it cleared, and we saw that we were 

 near the ice-foot, and that this was bounded by a high barrier of ice. 



' The direction of the coast here was north-west by south-west. 

 We followed the ice southward. Inside our course was a large 

 expanse of sand, behind which the land rose at a gentle 

 gradient, with higher ground north and south, though nothing 

 that we could see exceeded a height of about 900 feet. The 



CAMP BY THE ICE-FOOT. 



country was uniformly covered with snow, except for bare 

 patches here and there where the ground fell away rather more 

 abruptly. On these there was a good deal of moss and lichen, but 

 of the vegetation on the whole it was difficult to form any opinion, 

 as there was a great deal of snow on the places where it might be 

 expected to be most luxuriant. Xor was it easy to get near the 

 mountains for the purpose of taking specimens of the rock. 



' According to arrangement, we drove back to Cape Levvel, and 

 arrived there on April 28. We had high wind from the south-east 



