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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [December 
of art ; for there was a cold wind blowing, and I hadn't 
been able to draw for weeks. Many of the boulders had 
pot holes eroded in them, I think by wind and frost action. 
I boldly attempted to draw these also, sitting with my 
boots among them and drawing the latter also to show 
the scale ! 
We were confined to the tent by snow all the next 
day. Debenham and I made a chess-board on the back 
of his plane-table and cut out card discs for the pieces. 
After several weeks we began to realise the appearance 
of the men, and later we played many games while we 
were waiting on Cape Roberts. 
On the last day of 191 1 we left this camp and moved 
west to Gondola Mountain. The glacier was deeply 
snow-covered, and though we sank in it the sledge 
pulled pretty well. There must have been plenty of 
crevasses where the ice stream curved round the end 
of the nunakol, but though we sank in a foot or two at 
times, yet the snow was so deep we didn't break through 
anywhere. The sun came out to cheer us, and later 
in the day we reached a scattered moraine of granite 
blocks. The ice had been melted here in the previous 
summer, and we heard the old familiar creaking and 
splintering of ' glass-house ' and ' bottle-glass ' which 
reminded Debenham and myself of our trip up the 
Koettlitz Glacier. 
Finally we came to a sudden ice cliff about 100 feet 
high, but just not too steep for tobogganing. So we 
' let her go ' and slid down into the stream-cut gully 
which fringed the Gondola Ridge. 
