i9tij READIN(; IN A iUJZZARD 249 
I don't much fear it will shift out lliis ice. Anyhow vvc 
can't move and I'm learning to take these hli/'/,es phih.i- 
sophically. Besides, tlie hags are dry and warm, and 
when I tire of writing this diary I snoo/.c a bit, anti then 
read Marker's " Petrology " (I)ehenliam's), and tlu-n snoo/.e 
more. Or Poe's "Tales" (too fantastic and Oriental to 
please me, most of tlunn), or " Martin Chu/;/.lewit," or 
German Grammar. I'\)rde is reading the " Mysterious 
Island " wliieh Gran has nearly finished at. last. 
Debcnham started to work out a latitude but is now 
" wroppcd in Morfus." Last night's " lioosh " vv;is an 
enormous success, zh pots of Forde's concentrated seal- 
hoosh mixed with water and meal made a top-Iiole lioosli 
■ — very tasty and all indigenous ! 
' 6 p.7n. — The tent is beastly sloppy. We have jusl 
finished our lunch, and if we can't get away, that is our 
last meal to-day. To-day is a (|ueer camp- I he [irst 
down liere where we have actually been dripped on when 
no primus is going. We have jnil the eo(jker under (he 
tied-up door and it is filling I see. l''or(h: is dressing his 
hand and Debenliam keeping warm very sensibly in 
his bag. 
' Nf)on.—]t is now noon and we are still snowed up off 
the end of the Mackay 'JV)ngue. l*V)rty-three hours nr)w 
and we have not got away. It ch-ip|)ed most of tlic night, 
for the temperature was | 27" outside and wanner inside. 
There was a puddle by tfic door, but (Jran's and my bags 
have absorbed most of that, and Debenham's is wetter. 
I put on my boots, wind coat, and puttees and cbig out the 
thermometer. The sledge is fjLiricd ivv(t feet umlry snf)W. 
