Ci^apter Bint 



PROFESSOR DAVID'S NARRATIVE (Continued) 



/^N the following day, November 26, we saw on look- 

 ing back that the rocky headland, where I had 

 collected the specimens of granite and moss, was not 

 part of the mainland, but a small island. This day 

 was rather a memorable one in our journey, as we 

 reached a large rocky promontory, which we sup- 

 posed at the time to be Cape Irizar. Subsequent 

 observations, however, proved that we must already have 

 passed Cape Irizar, which was in all probability the small 

 island just referred to. 



We had some good sledging here over pancake ice 

 nearly free from snow and travelled fast. While 

 Mackay secured some seal meat Mawson and I ascended 

 the rocky promontory, climbing at first over rock, 

 then over glacier ice, to a height of about six hundred 

 feet above the sea. The rock was a pretty red granite 

 traversed by large dykes of black rocks, apparently of 

 an alkaline character, belonging to the phonolites or 

 tinguaites. 



From the top of the headland to the north we had a 

 magnificent view across the level surface of sea ice far 

 below us. We saw that at a few miles from the shore 

 an enormous iceberg, frozen into the floe, lay right 

 across the path which we had intended to travel in our 

 northerly course on the morrow. To the north-west 

 of us was Geikie Inlet and beyond that stretching as 

 far as the eye could follow was the great Drygalski 

 Glacier. Beyond the Drygalski Glacier were a series 



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