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May 13 and 14, and these two days of excellent visibility permitted 

 the patrol ship to locate a total of 21 bergs which were scattered along: 

 the eastern side of the Bank from the forty-third parallel northward 

 to latitude 44° 15'. This was really the first period of serious scouting 



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Fig. 14. 



-Bergs sighted by the patrol May 13-14. These were the vanguard of a greater number than 

 usual which drifted south of the Bank in May 



which the patrol had been able to accompHsh so far this year and 

 these dates of the 13th and 14th may be accepted quite confidently 

 as marking the initial invasion of glacial ice, during 1926, into rela- 

 tively low latitudes. Moreover, it was beheved that a berg located 

 on the very tip of the Tail of the Bank on both of these dates, was one 



