IDEAL SITUATION FOR A CAMP 



on the bay ice gave promise that there could be no lack of 

 fresh meat. 



With this ideal situation for a camp, and everything 

 else satisfactory, including a supply of water from a 

 lake right in front of our little valley, I decided that 

 we could not do better than start getting our gear ashore 

 at once. There was only one point that gave me any 

 anxiety, and that was as to whether the sea would freeze 

 over between this place and Hut Point in ample time 

 for us to get across for the southern and western journeys 

 in the following spring. It was also obvious that nothing 

 could be done in the way of laying out depots for the 

 next season's work, as directly the ship left we would 

 be cut off from any communication with the lands to 

 the south of us, by sea and by land, for the heavily 

 crevassed glaciers fringing the coast were an effectual 

 bar to a march with sledges. However, time was press- 

 ing, and we were fortunate to get winter quarters as near 

 as this to our starting-point for the south. 



Cooker and Primus Stove. 



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