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to be ascending. Nevertheless, we could see Castle Rock 
at intervals, and steered by that. I thought we must have 
crossed the tide crack unknowingly, when the sun appeared 
and showed us we were one-third of the way up the 
promontory ! With its customary irrationality Antarctica 
had decided to dispense with a tide crack in 1911, though 
the next expedition will probably find a chasm fifty feet 
deep where the Barrier presses on Ross Island. 
We joyfully had lunch, transferred all necessaries 
to the big sledge, and pulled up the 1000 feet to Castle 
Rock, which we reached in two hours. We had a short 
rest and then proceeded to tackle the last two miles 
which lay along the crest of the promontory. Here I 
saw Evans over-cautious for the first time, but I can 
well understand his feelings. This was March 14, and on 
the same day in 1903? ^fter a heavy blizzard, he and his 
mates were in the same spot trying to reach the hut. 
They went astray in the drift, and poor Vince lost his 
footing and slipped down Danger Slope into the sea. 
However, there was no drift at this height, and we 
proceeded easily enough past Castle Rock and got on 
to the broad ridge beyond. After a mile or so we saw 
four men over toward Crater Heights. A great sight ; 
though it was comic to see them marching in a row in 
their swollen wind-clothes. Except for their swinging 
arms, they looked to us just like a row of the Emperor 
penguins we had seen in New Harbour. They were Wilson, 
Bowers, Atkinson, and Cherry-Garrard. These told us the 
news and took charge of our sledge, while I went off and 
made my report to Captain Scott. 
