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the larger. I took several panorama photos with Forde in 
the foreground collecting skua eggs — or rather trying to, 
for they had not laid any yet, though many pairs were 
evidently considering the subject. Their nests — mere 
hollows two inches deep in the gravel- — were ready, but 
they merely sat about on cold feet, and stretched their 
wings and squawked at us. 
There was a low snow-covered col across the cape and 
Forde found a feasible track over it which thus avoided the 
rough screw-pack off the cape. So I agreed to try an 
' overland ' route with the sledges. 
Now arose an interesting question. Where was the 
Rendezvous Bluff photographed on page 154 in the 
' Voyage of the Discovery ' ? After lunch^ — a midnight 
feast as we were now marching — we inspanncd and 
made straight for a hanging glacieret we named the ' Spill- 
over.' We did a long march to ' see round the corner.' 
We crossed several working cracks and reached a small 
knob of granite beneath frowning ice cliffs. About here 
a huge bluff rose into view which we decided must be the 
Discovery Bluff. It looked rather higher than 500 feet 
and we saw it from another angle, but no other headland 
seemed at all similar. I wondered if we were in some 
other bay altogether, for it differed considerably from 
the Discovery position. We returned from First View 
Point for our other sledge. On our second trip it seemed 
as if we would never reach the Point, for in our eagerness 
we had done a two-mile stage. The weather looked 
thick to south'ard and there was a threatening table- 
cloth on Erebus. We hauled the sledges over some wide 
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