120 British Antarctic Expedition. 
and slowly we climbed upwards, while the lesser slope 
some 400 feet above us seemed always to grow further 
away as we slowly ascended towards it. All the night 
“IT WAS ONE MOVING WALL OF GRINDING ICE-BLOCKS,” 
through we continued to climb, while the cold increased 
as we got up in the heights. By way of the ridge 
we were cnabled to proceed towards Camp Ridley, 
where great anxiety had prevailed already on the 
day when the ice broke up, as they knew of no place 
where we could possibly have camped at the time. 
There were many seals on the ice-floes, the flesh 
of which some of us ate raw. The Aurora Australis 
was seen nearly every clear night at this time. 
On May 5th seventy-one fish were caught. I saw 
that day one of the brown-backed petrels. In the 
evening while we were having a slight supper we 
heard roaring and crushing to the N.W. of our 
peninsula, and when we came near the beach we 
