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with the four large headless fish found by the Discovery 
Expedition. We had a hot discussion in the luit as to 
this problem of decapitation, but came to no definite 
conclusion, for it seemed too far for seals to carry it. 
That night we slept at Park Lane Camp. We had 
been traversing a frozen park, set out in circular beds with 
winding paths in every direction. The ' flower beds ' 
were represented by elevated masses of ice thirty feet 
across, exactly like an apple-pie with a raised crust — even 
to the four cuts made by the housewife across the top ! 
The last two days we had only progressed seven miles, 
and for five of them wc had carried the sledge rather 
than dragged it. \_See Illustration, p. 422.] 
Next day, however, we found that to the south the 
glacier was nearly continuous. It had not been dis- 
sected by thaw-waters to nearly the same extent, and by 
4 P.M. we managed to advance ten miles to the south- 
west. We camped on a platform of weathered ice, so 
rotten that it resembled a layer of honeycomb. We 
found that this honeycomb ice was very common in this 
part of the Koettlitz. 
We tried to find an easier way out of the numerous 
undulations which now characterised the surface, but 
unsuccessfully, and so plugged on south-west. We used 
to ' pully-haul' up one side (i.e. hand over hand) and then 
toboggan down the other. P.O. Evans was an expert steers- 
man, while we others used to keep the ropes clear. But 
we had some nasty falls, especially Evans, who got a cut 
deep in his palm from a piece of * bottle-glass ' ice, in 
spite of his thick mitts. 
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