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relaying impossible, but we found we could manage the 
two sledges together again on the improving surface. 
Our chief difficulty was to avoid gradually and un- 
wittingly mounting the slopes of Mt. Terror to our left, 
where there are any number of crevassed patches of ice, 
and running into the pressure ridges on our right. Between 
these two lay an area of more or less level land ice which 
was safe going — but in two or three places I knew it was 
accessary to cross long snow capes running across our 
path from Mt. Terror — and here, if one wished to avoid 
very long uphill drags one had to approach the pressure 
ridges fairly closely — a thing quite easy with daylight, but 
affording us constant trouble in the dark and fog which 
hampered us all along this part of our journey. 
To-day no landmarks were visible at all. We made 
a little over one mile in the forenoon and f mile more in 
the afternoon. It was a great relief to have done so 
without relaying. The moon was invisible [only a glow 
where she is] and everything was obscured by fog, but the 
surface was improving every hour. In the afternoon we 
ran into crevassed ground, after having suspected we 
were pulling the sledges up and down several rises of 
moderate gradient. As we expected this, however, before 
reaching the second long snow cape, we went on. The 
surface was again hard and icy in places, with sometimes 
six inches of snow loose upon it. Our feet went through 
this snow and slipped upon the ivory-hard surface under- 
neath. This was often near the top of the ridges. In 
the hollows the surface was deep and soft and crusted. 
One could judge much of the nature of the surface, and 
