i66 SCOTI'^S LAST I'.XPEDITION iOnoMKR 
and sick. Lcvick i^avc nic vsoinc medicine tluU put new 
life into me. We liave liad a wearisome day of relaying, 
willi irequeiU upsets, and have been cutting a path through 
high and heavy pressure ice, hall liidden under a soft snow 
into which we fell and lloundered about. 
At 5.30 the light was so bad that 1 camped. J3istancc 
perhaps 3 miles, but it is impossible to gauge accurately 
witli this st>rt of iravelliug. 
Ociohcr 17. — 'rurned out at 5.15 to find snow falling, 
and In the time we had finished breaklast a southerly gale 
was blowing, with heavy drift, aiul it was in\possible to 
march, so we turned in and spent the day in our bags. 
Orfohrr iS.— Phe wind dropped in the night and the 
sk\' cleared about 6, lea\ing a line day. Wc have had 
another heav\- da\\s work rela\'ing over bad pressure, but 
yesterda\''s rest has done us all a lot of good and we went 
at it quite fresh. We sa\v the Nordenskiold ice tongue 
ahead miraged up and l(^oking quite close. About 5 p.m. 
we came to the end of this infernal pressure, and saw 
smootli surface between us and the tongue end, and by 
6.30 canipcd on the smooth ice. 1 had noticed a seal up 
about a mile west of us as we were relaying over the last of 
tlve pressure, so after we had camped 1 went away on ski to 
look for him. 
After ooim^ about 2 miles 1 struck his tracks and 
followed them till the\- disappeared down a liole. Through 
the seal hole 1 tried to feel the lower edge of the ice but was 
unable to do so. I take it therefore that the ice must be 
at least ^ feet thick. This snioolh surface we are on must 
be due, 1 think, to the current coming up under the 
