112 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [January 
After Christmas a permanent camp was established 
on Cape Adare and we were divided into three watches, 
one of which was always stationed on top of the cape to 
look out for the ship. During one of these watches 
Priestley and Dickason walked ten miles south along the 
cape, to find out whether, in the event of the ship not 
picking us up, it was possible for us to make our way 
south this way. They report the cape to reach a height 
of 4200 feet at its highest point, and from there they were 
able to get a good view of Warning Glacier and consider 
that it would be impossible to make an extended journey 
in this direction. 
On the morning of January 4 Browning sighted the 
ship and signalled us on the beach below by hoisting a 
flag as arranged, and two days later all our gear was 
aboard and we were on our way to try our fortune two 
or three hundred miles farther south along the coast. 
January 8, 191 2. p.m. — This evening Pennell and I 
from the crow's nest saw open water behind the heavy 
pack we had been working through all day. I had given 
up hope of being able to land at Evans Coves, and talking 
it over with Pennell had just decided to come down in 
the ship and pick up Debenham first, when we saw the 
open water, and by 9 the same evening we were secured 
alongside the sea ice about \\ miles from the piedmont, 
north of Evans Coves. It was a lovely evening, and with 
the help of the ship's people we soon had our outfit on 
the piedmont by a big moraine, where we had arranged 
to make our depot, and be picked up by the ship on 
February 18. 
