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open sin<^(Uh snow hollow, liai\l ;uul windswept as lo sur- 
face, but in places not cut up by sastrugi. Tliis camp lay 
about" 150 yards below the ridge where we proposed lo 
build our stone hut. |llere we are alter a real slot; — 
700 leet up, camped on very hard snow witli our hul site 
clu"»sen oil to W. on some moraine — we have been divS- 
cussing what to call the luit which we hope (o build 
under a big boulder on the slope, walling om- side of it — 
Terra Igloo 1 t^xpcct. It seems too good to he true — 
19 (.lays out, this is our 15th camp — four daN's' b!i'/;/.ard. 
Surely seldom has an)-one been so wet - our bags hardly 
possible to get into --our wintlch^thes just fro7.cn box<'S. 
Birdie's patent balaclava is like iron— it is wc^iulerful 
how our cares liave vanislied.] We hail original!)' in- 
tended building on the Adclic ixMiguin rooker\-, but so 
much ol our time has been taken up in getting here, ami 
our oil was already so short, that we decided to build as 
close as we could t(^ our work with th<^ l^mjxM-or jx-nguins, 
and take the cliancc of doing so in the bli/./.ard area. 
In the Adelie penguin rookery we should have been out 
of the bli//,ards, but five miles from (uir jM'incipal work. 
We hoped, however, to find something of a lee for our 
hut, and to put up witli the bli/,/ards. 
On the ridge top above the snow hollow where we were 
camped was a low, rough mass of rock situ with a 
quantity of loose rock masses of erratics of various kinds, 
some granite, some hard basalt, and som<^ crumbly volcanic 
lava lying around. There was also a lot of rough gravel 
and plenty of hard snow which could be cut into ]\aving- 
stone slabs. So here we had all the material we wanted, 
