ON TENT ISLAND 



photographed a splendid weathered kenyte boulder, 

 hollowed out like a summer-house, and studded with 

 felspars as an old-fashioned church door is studded 

 with nails. After taking these photographs we climbed 

 down the other side of the island, and walked round 

 to join the others. The rock-climbing here, on any 

 slopes at all steep, is very difficult because of the 

 weathered fragments, which, owing to lack of powerful 

 natural agents of transportation and to the fact that 

 the wind carries all the lightest soil away, are left lying 

 just at their angle of repose; a false step may send 

 mountaineer and mountain surface hurtling down fifty 

 or a hundred feet — no agreeable sensation, as I know 

 from frequent experience. The sun was very hot 

 to-day, and the gully was occupied by a little stream 

 which was carrying quite a quantity of light soil down 

 with it. 



Day had an exciting experience with the car during 

 this journey. He encountered a big crack in the ice 

 near Cape Barne, and steering at right angles to its 

 course, put on speed in order to " fly " it in the usual 

 way. When only a few yards from it and travelHng 

 at a speed of about fifteen miles an hour, he found that 

 the crack made a sudden turn, so as to follow the line 

 he was taking, and an instant later his right-hand front 

 wheel dropped in. Any weak points in the car would 

 have been discovered by the sudden strain, but happily 

 nothing broke, and the crack making another turn, the 

 wheel bounded out at the elbow, and the car was on sound 

 ice again. 



On November 16 Priestley made an interesting trip 

 up the slopes of Erebus. Beyond the lower moraines 

 and separated from them by a snow- field of considerable 

 size, he found a series of kenyte ridges and cones, 

 covered by very little debris. The ridges continued for 



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