THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC 



like spurs, similar in appearance to the " cathedral " 

 rocks described by Armitage in connection with the 

 Discovery Expedition to the western mountains. Further 

 on to the south the mountains have a bluff appearance, 

 with long lines of stratification running almost hori- 

 zontally. This bluff mountain range seems to break- 

 about sixty miles away, and beyond can be seen dimly 

 other mountains. Turning to the west, the mountains 

 on that side appeared to be rounded and covered with 

 huge masses of ice, and glaciers showing the lines of 

 crevasses. In the far distance there is what looked like 

 an active volcano. There is a big mountain with a 

 cloud on the top, bearing all the appearance of steam 

 from an active cone. It would be very interesting to 

 find an active volcano so far south. After taking 



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bearings of the trend of the mountains, Barrier and 

 glacier, we ate our frugal lunch and wished for more, 

 and then descended. Adams had boiled the hypso- 

 meter and taken the temperature on the top, whilst 

 Marshall, who had carried the camera on his back all 

 the way up, took a couple of photographs. How we 

 wished we had more plates to spare to get a record of 

 the wonderful country we were passing through. At 

 4 p.m. we began to descend, and at 5 p.m. we were on 

 the Barrier again. We were rather tired and very hungry 

 when, at 7 p.m., we reached our camp. After a good 

 dinner, and a cupful of Maujee ration in the hoosh as 

 an extra, we turned in. 



To-day, December 4, we got under way at 8 a.m. 

 and steered into the land, for we could see that there 

 was no question as to the way we should go now. Though 

 on the glacier, we might encounter crevasses and diffi- 

 culties not to be met with on the Barrier, yet on the 

 latter we could get no further than 86° South, and then 



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