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high water should at times rise over the level where 
our camp was pitched. 
On the r4th July we travelled towards Possession 
Island. At places: the ice was ey smooth, but 
mostly very heavy screwing was observed. We 
went out to sea and scaled an iceberg, and although 
the berg was 100 ft. high, we failed to see Possession 
Island because of the mist towards the south. Near 
land, about five miles from the two rocks at Cape 
Adare, which I named The Sisters, we observed a 
great many large loose basaltic rocks on the ice, 
some as far as halfa-mile out from the walls of 
Victoria Land. They were on quite smooth, undis- 
turbed sea ice, therefore they evidently had not been 
conveyed from the shore by drift-ice, but most likely 
had been thrown out by a minor volcanic eruption. 
It seems almost improbable that they should have 
rolled out so far by the speed attained in falling from 
the edge of the cliff some 600 ft. up; although, of 
course, a couple of miles rolling from the summit of 
Cape Adare, some 5,000 ft. might have started 
them off with great velocity. I took it as a fresh 
warning against trusting oneself near the steep 
rocks. 
On the 18th July the house was completely 
buried in snow towards the west. Mr. Evans and 
Mr. Bernacchi were busily developing photographs 
during the evening. It was no easy task to develop 
photographs during those cold days and nights, when 
water had to be got by melting snow. The mercury 
froze in the thermometers, and chemicals and water 
were apt to freeze instantly if left alone. Still 
Mr. Bernacchi stuck to his guns, and never gave 
