150 British Antarctic Expedition. 
in the morning heavy screwing roared towards the 
north. 
At 6 in the morning we boiled some coffee, ate 
some biscuits and large slices of fat, and started 
again on our journey northwards. A strong wind 
descended from the mountains, wrapping us in a 
thick drift of snow. It was bitingly cold, and the 
sledges sank deep in the drifts as we struggled 
onwards. We had to keep two sledges close to 
each other to enable them to benefit by the track 
| of the preceding one The Finn Savio hadi Hie 
cheek severely frost-bitten : it was white and abso- 
lutely hard. When we arrived at the camp, I was 
glad to find that Mr. Hanson had greatly improved 
under the able treatment Of the doctor, and 1 
venture: to believe that the arrival of a skull of 
Lobodon Carcinopaga (the white seal) helped to 
set new life in his partly paralysed legs. With 
characteristic energy he greeted the valuable 
addition to his zoological collection. The result 
of this short trip I consider by no means small, 
both with regard to the meteorological observa- 
tions and the geological studies of Victoria Land 
itself, besides the hard experience in sledging in 
Antarctic pack. 
One night in Camp Ridley we had a fire in the 
camp. I awoke through a suffocating smoke, and 
found that one of the members had his bunk on fire. 
He had kept a candle burning while reading, and had 
fallen asleep in his bunk, leaving it alight. It gave us 
rather a start, and I took extra precautions against 
fire. One arrangement was that after that time ten 
knapsacks full of provisions were hanging ready (one 
