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The zinc sulphate may truthfully be described as an ' eye- 
opener,' but later the cocaine in the mixture calms things 
down ! You are advised ' to keep your face cool/ but 
unfortunately I had to keep my head in the bag to get 
warm. However^ Forde was pretty right next day and 
my eyes soon stopped aching, though everything appeared 
double for many hours ! 
On the 8th we reached the land near Cape Bernacchi. 
There was a steep ice slope 200 feet high at an angle of 
30"^. Luckily it was much honeycombed and sun-eaten. 
We put grummets (rope brakes) on the sledge and 
managed to get it down by 1.30 p.m. We had a very 
cheerful lunch, for we knew the depot was only a few 
miles south. Then we found an ice-foot all the way 
along the edge of the rocks and moraine which led us 
right to the Bernacchi cairn. This was a regular ice 
pathway about 20 yards wide. It was due to sea-ice 
which had become cemented to the shore, the tide crack 
being farther away from the rocks and defining that 
part of the floe which had lately drifted away to sea. 
No one had visited our depot. New Harbour was 
full of new broken floe, but a fine ice-foot seemed to 
promise well for our next march. 
We stayed a day at Cape Bernacchi, for I wished 
to get a good station for the triangulation of this coast. 
Gran and I took the theodolite to the top of a hill 2900 
feet high at the north-east end of Dry Valley. We named 
this Hjort's Hill in honour of the maker of our trustv 
primus lamp. As we were climbing this hill Gran swore 
he could see the ship off Cape Evans through the 
