GOOD WORK BY DOGS 



astern of the sledge, felt himself falling through space, 

 but the pace of the dogs brought him over the crevasse, 

 at the length of his harness. We found ourselves stand- 

 ing on the edge of a yawning gap that would easily 

 have swallowed up sledge, dogs, and the whole party, and 

 on the far side we could see our sledge tracks leading right 

 up to the edge. It seemed almost a miracle how we had 

 managed to escape. Day took a photograph, and we 

 altered the course for Cape Crozier, getting out of the 

 crevasses about 5 p.m. Then we camped for the night, 

 having all had a good shaking up." 



A long march the next day over a good surface 

 brought the party to Cape Armitage at midnight. 

 Joyce found that the ice in the sound had gone out, 

 and it was therefore necessary to climb through the 

 gap at Observation Hill. A blizzard came up, and 

 with great difficulty the party reached the old Discovery 

 hut at Hut Point at 2 a.m. The distance covered during 

 the day had been forty-five miles, an unusually good 

 performance. The surface had been good, and the 

 wind favourable, and the dogs had pulled splendidly. 

 Joyce speaks very highly of the work of the dogs on 

 this journey. They were pulling over 100 lb. per dog, 

 and yet ran most of the time. They suffered a good 

 deal from snow-blindness, and then they used to dig a 

 hole in the snow and bury their faces right in; this 

 method of treatment seemed to ease their eyes and 

 they recovered from the attacks very quickly. " One 

 day I released Tripp, because he had a chafed leg," 

 wrote Joyce, " and for the whole day he ran in his place 

 in the team, as if he had been harnessed up. He slept 

 about half a mile from camp that night, and when I 

 tried to coax him over in the morning he would not come, 

 but as soon as we got under way he came running up to 

 his old place. I fed the dogs on one pound of biscuit a 



