GLOSSARY 
Barrier, the immense sheet of ice, over 400 miles wide and 
of still greater length, which lies south of Ross Island 
to the west of Victoria Land. 
Brash, small ice fragments from a floe that is breaking up. 
Drift, snow swept from the ground like dust and driven 
before the wind. 
Finnesko, fur boots. 
Flense, flence, to cut the blubber from a skin or carcase. 
Frost Smoke, a mist of water vapour above the open leads, 
condensed by the severe cold. 
Hoosh, a thick camp-soup with a basis of pemmican. 
Ice-foot, properly the low fringe of ice formed about Polar 
lands by the sea spray. More widely, the banks of 
ice of varying height which skirt many parts of the 
Antarctic shores. 
Nunatak, a ' lonely peak ' of rock in the midst of the ice ; 
when rounded by glacial action, a Nunakol. 
Piedmont, coastwise stretches of the ancient ice-sheet 
which once covered the Antarctic Continent, remain 
ing either on the land, or wholly or partially afloat. 
Pram, a Norwegian skiff, with a spoon bow. 
Primus, a portable stove for cooking. 
Ramp, a great embankment of morainic material with ice 
