SOUTH 
returned to the ship and proceeded across the Sound to Cape 
Bernacchi. 
The next day I took a party ashore with the object of 
searching the area north of Glacier Tongue, including Eazorback 
Island, for traces of the two missing men. We reached the 
Cape Evans Hut at 1.30 p.m., and Joyce and I left at 3 p.m. 
for the Razorbacks. We conducted a search round both 
islands, returning to the hut at 7 p.m. The search had been 
fruitless. On the 14th I started with Joyce to search the 
north side of Glacier Tongue, but the surface drift, with wind 
from south-east, decided me not to continue, as the ice was 
moving rapidly at the end of Cape Evans, and the pool between 
the hut and Inaccessible Island was growing larger. The wind 
increased in the afternoon. The next day a south-east bhzzard 
was blowing, with drift half up the islands. I considered it 
unsafe to sledge that day, especially as the ice was breaking 
away from the south side of Cape Evans into the pool. We 
spent the day putting the hut in order. 
We got up at 3 a.m. on the 16th. The weather was fine 
and calm. I started at 4.20 with Joyce to the south at the 
greatest possible speed. We reached Glacier Tongue about one 
and a half miles from the seaward end. Wherever there were 
not precipitous cliffs there was an even snow-slope to the top. 
From the top we searched with glasses ; there was nothing to 
be seen but blue ice, crevassed, showing no protuberances. We 
came down and, half running, half walking, worked about three 
miles towards the root of the glacier ; but I could see there 
was not the shghtest chance of finding any remains owing to 
the enormous snow-drifts wherever the cliffs were accessible. 
The base of the steep cliffs had drifts ten to fifteen feet high. 
We arrived back at the hut at 9.40, and left almost immediately 
for the ship. I considered that all places Ukely to hold the 
bodies of Mackintosh and Hayward had now been searched. 
There was no doubt to my mind that they met theii deaths 
on the breaking of the thin ice when the blizzard arose on 
May 8, 1916. During my absence from the hut WUd and Jack 
had erected a cross to the memory of the three men who had 
lost their Uves in the service of the Expedition. 
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