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the heights. It would have been interesting to follow 
this glacier up, but the route was quite impossible 
for a sledge and we returned to camp footsore and 
disappointed. 
January 31. — Fog, snow, and then drift kept us in 
our tent till one o'clock, when, the snow easing up a 
little, we marched for the moraines of the Priestley Glacier. 
I had now given up all hope of getting through to Wood 
Bay this year, our time being too short to get over 
by the Boomerang Glacier, which I consider the only 
practicable route for a sledge, so we turned our attention 
to the Priestley Glacier, on whose moraines Priestley 
hoped to find some more fossil wood. 
We camped about 6 on the southern moraine. While 
so doing Dickason caught sight of Levick and his party 
heading for the Corner Glacier. After some difficulty 
we managed to attract their attention and they pulled 
over and camped near us. Levick had apparently 
misunderstood my instructions, and waited for me at 
Cape Mossyfacc, then seeing his mistake he headed for 
Cape Sastrugi across the mouth of the Melbourne Glacier 
and crossed a maze of crevasses. He says, ' Getting 
under way about 10, we marched till 12.30 over fairly 
good surface. After that we got into a perfect net-work 
of crevasses. They were mostly snow-bridged, and had 
we not had ski on we could never have got over, as we 
could break holes in them in places with our ice-axes. It 
was 7.30 before we found a place where there was a small 
space sufficiently free from crevasses to enable us to 
camp. One of the snow bridges we had to cross broke 
