THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC 



to be snow-blind. Our distance to-day was 16 miles 1200 

 yards. 



November 28.— Started at 7.50 a.m. in beautiful 

 weather, but with a truly awful surface, the ponies 

 sinking in very deeply. The sledges ran easily, as the 

 temperature was high, plus 17° to plus 20° Fahr., the 

 hot sun making the snow surface almost melt. We 

 halted at noon for a latitude observation, and found 

 our latitude to be 82° 38' South. The land now appears 

 more to the east, bearing south-east by south, and 

 some very high mountains a long way off, with lower 

 foothills, can be seen in front, quite different to the 

 land abeam of us, which consists of huge sharp-pointed 

 mountains with crevassed glaciers moving down gullies 

 in their sides. Marshall is making a careful survey 

 of all the principal heights. All day we have been 

 travelling up and down long undulations, the width 

 from crest to crest being about one and a half miles, 

 and the rise about 1 in 100. We can easily see the 

 line by our tracks sometimes being cut off sharp when 

 we are on the down gradient and appearing again a 

 long way astern as we rise. The first indication of the 

 undulation was the fact of the mound we had made 

 in the morning disappearing before we had travelled 

 a quarter of a mile. During the afternoon the weather 

 was very hot. A cool breeze had helped us in the fore- 

 noon, but it died away later. Marshall has a touch 

 of snow-blindness, and both Grisi and Socks were also 

 affected during the day. When we camped to-night 

 Grisi was shot. He had fallen off during the last few 

 days, and the snow-blindness was bad for him, putting 

 him off his feed. He was the one chosen to go at the 

 depot we made this evening. This is Depot C, and 

 we are leaving one week's provisions and oil, with horse- 

 meat, to carry us back to Depot B. We will go on 



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