I9II] . THE NEW DOUBLE TENT 293 
The temperature fell a good deal during the night and 
we could scarcely sleep. Gran, using an eiderdown bag 
inside his sleeping-bag, was warmer than the other two 
of us, but later on our journey the eiderdown bag was 
like a board and he had very little if any advantage 
from it. 
On September 1 1, at 7 a.m., the temperature was - sS'z"^, 
the minimum for the night being -62'3°. 
At 9 A.M. we started off, and marched 5I miles by 
sledgemeter (statute 6 miles 530 yards). 
We built cairns at every night and lunch camp, and 
small ^ top-hats ' whenever we had a halt. Corner Camp 
is very difficult to find, as landmarks are so often obscured 
by cloud and drift in this vicinity. One of our objects 
was to mark the track clearly. 
We stopped for lunch at 2 ; the land was entirely 
obscured by mist, although the sky was clear overhead. 
Thermometer at - 43°. 
The surface in the forenoon though variable was 
fairly good ; we marched another 5I miles by our sledge- 
meter during the afternoon and camped at 8.30, the 
weather gradually becoming worse, wind from W.S.W., 
with low drift. By the time our tent was pitched a 
fair blizzard was on us. Temperature - 34*5°. 
By ID P.M. the tent was well drifted up, weather 
squally, but all snug inside. We had with us the new 
pattern double tent, which is a horrible thing— it 
shortens the space down so, and is the most trying 
thing to spread in a breeze. To quote my diary : 
' There is a sharp difference of opinion as to the value 
