DEMETRT'S PEAK 
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of Erebus visible from Cape Evans^ and Cape Royds with 
the country beyond the shoulder, which was the last ridge 
visible from winter quarters. 
As we were caught by the fog in the act of camping and 
the landmarks below had been blotted out all the afternoon 
by the belt of cloud, we were obliged to wait here until the 
weather cleared and we could fix tJie cone, and so persistent 
was the bad weather tliat it was not until jo a.m. of the 
7th that we struck Reflection Camp, as we had named it, 
and were able to proceed. 
Our first objective, the Northern Nunatak, or Demctri's 
Peak as we afterwards named it, was within easy reach by 
lunch time, so I decided to camp at a large nunatak about 
a mile and a half from the peak and take a rope party to 
examine it. So far all the rocks we had passed had been 
the typical kenyte so familiar to us at Cape Royds, but 
we found ourselves now camped on basalt, an allied but 
distinct rock which was not seen by the Professor's party, 
who had kept close in to the main, crater and had not 
attempted any side issues such as our present divergence. 
After lunch I took Gran, Abbott, and Dickason, leaving 
Debenham with Hooper to help him to continue his 
survey, and made straigJit for the peak, wJiich we reached 
without crossing any bad country, though crevasses were 
numerous above our route. 
We climbed tJie small triangular hill from bottom to 
top, making its height 300 feet, and from the top we 
obtained a good view and a photograph of the old crater 
and of a strongly seracced glacier which loomed up as a 
bad obstacle in our examination of the district. 
