SOUTHERN PARTY DUTIES 



temperatures at regular intervals, and the boiling of 

 the hypsometer, sometimes several times in a day. 

 He took notes during the day, and wrote up the observa- 

 tions at night in the sleeping-bag. Marshall was the 

 cosmographer and took the angles and bearings of all 

 the new land; he also took the meridian altitudes 

 and the compass variation as we went south. When a 

 meridian altitude was taken, I generally had it checked 

 by each member of the party, so that the mean coulcj 

 be taken. 



Marshall's work was about the most uncomfortable 

 possible, for at the end of a day's march, and often at 

 lunch-time, he would have to stand in the biting wind 

 handling the screws of the theodolite. The map of 

 the journey was prepared by Marshall, who also took 

 most of the photographs. Wild attended to the repair 

 of the sledges and equipment, and also assisted me 

 in the geological observations and the collection of 

 specimens. It was he who found the coal close to the 

 Upper Glacier Depot. I kept the courses and distances, 

 worked out observations and laid down our directions. 

 We all kept diaries. I had two, one my observation book, 

 and the other the narrative diary, reproduced in the first 

 volume. 



