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of the crater, and it is doubtless of the type known as 
Pele's hair. 
Gran made his escape from the steam cloud on the 
western side of the mountain, and so was able to get a good 
view of the Western Mountains, and believed he could see ' 
a range stretching back and cutting across the plateau at 
about the latitude of Granite Harbour. 
We then returned slowly to camp, collecting as we went, 
and arrived in about 9.30 a.m., to find that Hooper's feet 
had recovered and that Abbott had collected a fine lot of 
specimens. 
After our return to camp we rested in our bags for a 
few hours, and then struck camp and glissaded down the 
2000 feet till we rejoined Debenham and Dickason, 
covering in a few minutes a distance that had taken us 
three or four hours on our upward way. During our 
absence the latter had made good use of their time, finishing 
the survey of the old crater and collecting from moraines 
left by an ancestor of the crater glacier. 
We spent the night camped here, and the next morning 
proceeded on our way down the mountain, using ice axes 
in rope grummets at the after end of the sledge as brakes 
and making such good way that the same day we picked 
up all our depots, and camped within striking distance of 
Hooper's Shoulder, as we afterwards named the Southern 
Nunatak, in time for a late lunch. 
In the afternoon Debenham, Abbott, and Hooper and 
I walked over to the shoulder, photographed it and 
collected from it, and by 6 p.m. we were back in camp. 
The final descent was delayed until the i6th by bad 
