APPENDIX I. 
By THE COMMANDER, C. E. BORCHGREVINK. 
THE APPEARANCE OF VICTORIA LAND. 
The impression of Victoria Land upon my mind is to-day almost 
the same as after my return from the Antarctic Regions to civilisation 
in 1895. Large, elevated mountainous country, with peaks rising 
to the height of between 10,000 ft. and 12,000 ft. above the sea- 
level, precipitating into the Antarctic Ocean and crossed by innumer- 
able broad glaciers, cut through with deep yawning crevasses. ‘The 
multitude of these crevasses naturally caused by the steep gradient 
under which they descend to the sea, affords, perhaps, the most 
unsurmountable barrier for the progress of the traveller. Like 
immense rivers these monstrous glaciers drain the fathomless ice- 
fields of South Victoria Land. At a great distance they seem to the 
traveller on the frozen sea as smooth highways between mighty 
domes, but when the traveller, hungry and exhausted, reaches 
the place where they descend from the heights, they appear in all 
their stern defiance. Step by step you can cut your way onwards 
and upwards in the smooth green ice-cover; but for a traveller on 
foot in those regions these elevations, with their obstacles, will 
devour his time and thus his food, as no life fit to support is to 
be found beyond the coastline. Remarkable 15 it to see how free 
of ice and snow Victoria Land is at places near the coast, and 
the question why and wherefore forces itself upon the traveller. 
Cape Adare, Duke of York Island, Geikie Land, Doubtful Island, 
Possession Island, parts of Coulman Island, Cape Constance, Newnes 
