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PAST TERROR POINT 
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were over Terror Point and almost out of the blizzard 
area. The surfaee all up this slope was good going, hard 
but smooth, hardened however by variable winds of no 
great force, with but few areas of the softer sandy drifts 
which are the heavy ones to drag over. 
Across the divide we went downhill with the air-stream 
on our backs, and very soon we were once more on the old 
softer crusty surface of the Barrier itself, with trilling 
sastrugi and heavier pulling, a surface into whicJi the 
sledge runners and the feet sank a couple of inches. Sub- 
sidences again began and soon became frequent. Bright 
fine weather, and Terror peak visible all day, as well as 
Erebus from the time when wc first caught sigJit of it over 
Terror slope. One of the features of Erebus during the 
whole of this march was the outstanding old NortJiern 
Crater, which stood out boldly against the skyline part 
of the way down tlie slope. We lost it, however, at the 
end of to-day's march. 
Bowers turned his bag again to-day from fur outside to 
fur inside, and so it remained till we readied Cape Evans. 
The temperature ranged from -47'2''' in the morning 
to - 38° in the evening. At our lunch camp it was -40-3'^. 
We made 6| miles in the day. 
We were now travelling witli a view to getting in all 
the daylight we could and at the same time with a view 
to reducing our nights to the shortest possible, for we got 
but little sleep and were often uncomfortably cold all night. 
We therefore turned out generally at 5.30 a.m., lunched at 
2.30 P.M., and camped at 6 p.m., to turn in between 9 p.m. 
and 10 P.M. 
