Sledge Journey in Winter. 175 
When we were about a mile from it we struck the 
medial moraine, consisting of large broken rocks, and 
following it in a somewhat easterly direction we 
crossed the moraine at about the middle of the base 
line of this new land. This was no easy task, as it 
was cut through everywhere by deep crevasses, 
covered over with snow, gravel, and rocks in a most 
treacherous way. In addition to these crevasses came 
the difficulty of conveying the loaded sledges onward 
safely on this cover. The rocks tore the slides of the 
sledges, and we had to carry most of our provisions 
over on to the solid rocks of Geikie Land roped 
together, and slowly feeling our way with alpen- 
stocks. 
A young dog, which had followed our sledges 
loose, fell into a crevasse. We heard it howl and 
went in search. 
Most of us had 
given him up 
for lost when 
we, through our 
Sl GSES dis 
covered one of 
the Finns out in 
ihe middle of 
the gecer; he 
was lying flat 
on the ice, and 
evidently look- 
ing down a crevasse. Through our glasses we did 
not see more than one of them, so began to think 
that the other might have come to grief; however, 
we soon saw them both approach with the lost dog 
SIR JOHN MURRAY GLACIER. 
