1^)0 SCO'I'I^S I.AST EXPKDrflON [October 
It was warm wr)rl<: pulling through the soft snow and 
we were glad to stop for lunch. Wc could tnakc out the 
edge of the piedmont quite plainly, but could see nothing 
of the inlet until about 2 p.m., when we saw the mouth of 
it. A broad open-water lead several miles wide seemed 
to extend right along the barrier edge, but in the inlet 
itself the sea was frozen over. The snow was soft and 
t;h(' pulling very heavy, so it was 6 o'clock before we 
reached camp, on the north side of the inlet, about fifty 
yards from the cliff. Several seals and penguins were up 
on the sea ice, while snowdrifts gave us an easy road 
down from the barrier. The surface of the piedmont 
was broken by small crevasses here, one running right 
under the tent. Wc all enjoyed our salt-water hoosh and 
turned in very tired. Browning rather better. Dickason 
quite recovered. A lovely evening. Distance 8'5 
miles. 
October J. — A beautiful morning after a compara- 
tivclv warm night. We were away soon after 8, down 
the snowdrift slojie and over a title crack 4 ft. wide. 
'I'he sea ice proved very lieavy going, as it was covered 
with deep crusted snow through which we iiad a job 
to move the sledges. We saw rather an amusing incident 
here. A nundu-r of seals were lying along tlie tide crack, 
and just after we had crossed we saw one more struggle 
up on tlie ice and go to sleep with her tail within a few 
inches of the tide crack. She liatl hardly gone to sleep 
when a head came cautiously up, saw her, dipped down 
again, then coining cautiously up again, bit her hard. 
The poor beast squealctl, hit at her assailant several times 
