ата British Antarctic Expedition. 
was coming down upon us. In the next I realised 
the dangerous fact, and communicated it to Captain 
Jensen, who simultaneously recognised that the 
glacier immediately to the west of our little beach 
was giving birth to an iceberg. Quick as our 
thoughts the event followed. With a deafening roar 
a huge body of ice plunged into the sea, and a white 
cloud of water and snow hid everything before 
our eyes; the next seconds were trying for us two. 
LAND NEAR MOUNT MELBOURNE, 
For the first time in my life I felt that I was brought 
to bay by circumstances. Here were absolutely no 
resources, and we both foresaw what immediately 
afterwards followed. A tidal wave, if I may so term 
it, because of its similarity to such—a raging, rushing 
wave—rose like a wall from the plunge of this million 
of tons of ice mass. It seemed rapidly to grow as it 
hurried towards our ledge. We saw and heard all 
this magnificent but awful phenomenon, while we 
instinctively rushed to the highest part of our beach 
