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observations, Danco for magnetic work, Racovitza to search for plants 
and animals, Cook to take photographs, and I to collect geological speci- 
mens. Amundsen went with us. We landed on the promontory of an 
island (IV on map, Fig. 2), and it was not without difficulty that all the 
FIG. 3.—A TABULAR ICEBERG. 
delicate instruments were got ashore on the steep rocks. By dint of hard 
work and by division of labour, we were ready to go on board again by ten 
o'clock, Lecointe had been able to fix the position of this fourth landing * 
exactly, and also tkat of Two Hummocks island, which lay right opposite. 
While Racovitza was studying the patches of moss and lichens which 
were found here and there on the rocks, the doctor and I made use of 
Canadian snow-shoes to visit the higher part of the island, and we 
found them a great aid in crossing the snowy slopes, which were 
usually gentle, though there were dangerous crevasses in places. A thick 
mantle of snow stretched to the crest of the promontory and stopped 
abruptly, the further side being perpendicular. Great blocks of ice 
must sometimes fall over this precipice. I ventured to cross a longi- 
tudinal crevasse, and found myself upon a somewhat unstable mass of 
ice, poised on the edge of the cliff. A cape which was visible a short 
distance to the south showed exactly what usually happened. It was 
too steep for snow to rest upon the seaward slope; but a thick snow- 
* Lat. 64° 6’ 24” §., long. 61° 59’ 30” W. of Greenwich. 
