CAPE IRIZAR 



The following day, November 17, after a very heavy 

 sledging over loose powdery snow six inches deep we 

 reached a low glacier and ice cliff. We were able to get 

 some really fresh snow from this barrier or glacier, the 

 cliiFs of which were from tliirty to forty feet high. It 

 was a great treat to get fresh water at last, as since we 

 had left the Nordenskjold Ice Barrier the only snow 

 available for cooking purposes had been brackish. 



The following day was also bright and sunny, but 

 the sledging was terribly heavy. The sun had thawed 

 the surface of the saline snow and our sledge runners 

 had become saturated with soft water. We were so 

 wearied with the great effort necessary to keep the 

 sledges moving that at the end of each halt we fell 

 sound asleep for five minutes or so at a time across the 

 sledges. On such occasions one of the party would 

 wake the others up, and we would continue our journey. 

 We were even more utterly exhausted than usual at the 

 end of this day. 



By this time, however, we were in sight of a rocky 

 headland which we took to be Cape Irizar, and we knew 

 that this cape was not very far to the south of the 

 Drygalski Glacier. Indeed, already, a long line was 

 showing on the horizon which could be no other than 

 the eastward extension of this famous and, as it after- 

 wards proved, formidable glacier. 



On November 19, we had another heavy day's 

 sledging, ankle deep in the soft snow with occasional 

 thin patches of sludgy saline ice from which ice flowers 

 had recently disappeared through thawing. We only did 

 two miles of relay work this day and yet were quite 

 exhausted at the end of it. 



The following day, November 20, being short of 

 meat we killed a seal calf and cow, and so replenished 

 our larder. At the end of the day's sledging I walked 



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