xl WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD 
personality of 63 stones. Science singles out the Emperor 
as being the more interesting bird because he is more 
primitive, possibly the most primitive of all birds. Previous 
to the Discovery Expedition nothing was known of him 
save that he existed in the pack and on the fringes of the 
continent. 
We have heard of Cape Crozier as being the eastern 
extremity of Ross Island, discovered by Ross and named 
after the captain of the Terror. It is here that with im- 
mense pressures and rendings the moving sheet of the 
Barrier piles itself up against the mountain. It is here also 
that the great ice-cliff which runs for hundreds of miles to 
the east, with the Barrier behind it and the Ross Sea beat- 
ing into its crevasses and caves, joins the basalt precipice 
which bounds the Knoll, as the two-knobbed saddle which 
forms Cape Crozier is called. Altogether it is the kind 
of place where giants have had a good time in their child- 
hood, playing with ice instead of mud—so much cleaner 
too! 
But the slopes of Mount Terror do not all end in preci- 
pices. Farther to the west they slope quietly into the sea, 
and the Adélie penguins have taken advantage of this to 
found here one of their largest and most smelly rookeries. 
When the Discovery arrived off this rookery she sent a boat 
ashore and set up a post with a record upon it to guide the 
relief ship in the following year. The post still stands. 
Later it became desirable to bring the record left here more 
up to date, and so one of the first sledging parties went to 
try and find a way by the Barrier to this spot. 
They were prevented from reaching the record by a 
series of most violent blizzards, and indeed Cape Crozier 
is one of the windiest places on earth, but they proved 
beyond doubt that a back-door to the Adélie penguins’ 
rookery existed by way of the slopes of Mount Terror be- 
hind the Knoll. Early the next year another party reached 
the record all right, and while exploring the neighbour- 
hood looked down over the 800-feet precipice which forms 
the snout of Cape Crozier. The sea was frozen over, and 
in a small bay of ice formed by the cliffs of the Barrier 
