THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC 



fully developed, polar sledging appetites. The meal at 

 last ended, came more talk, smokes and then bed for the 

 weary travellers. 



After some days' delay on account of unfavourable 

 weather, a party, consisting of Adams, the Professor, 

 Armytage, Joyce, Wild and Marshall, equipped with a 

 seven-foot sledge, tent and provisions, as a precaution 

 against possible bad weather, started out to fetch in 

 the eleven-foot sledge with the explorer's equipment. 

 After a heavy pull over the soft, new-fallen snow, in 

 cloudy weather, with the temperature at mid-day 20° 

 below zero Fahr., and with a stiff wind blowing from 

 the south-east, they sighted the nunatak, recovered 

 the abandoned sledge and placing the smaller one on top, 

 pulled them both back as far as Blue Lake. I went 

 out to meet the party, and we left the sledge at Blue 

 Lake until the following day, when two of the Man- 

 churian ponies were harnessed to the sledges and the gear 

 was brought into winter quarters. 



