SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
[April 
The Bays froze over on March 25. 
The Strait „ „ „ April 22. 
„ „ dissipated April 29. 
„ „ froze over on April 30. 
Later. The Hut Point record of freezing is : 
Night 24th-25th. Ice forming mid-day 25th, opened with 
leads. 
26th. Ice all out, sound apparently open. 
27th. Strait apparently freezing. 
Early 28th. Ice over whole Strait. 
29th. All ice gone. 
30th. Freezing over. 
May 4th. Broad lead opened along land to Castle 
Rock, 300 to 400 yds. wide. 
Party intended to start on nth, if weather fine. 
Very fine display of aurora to-night, one of the brightest 
I have ever seen — over Erebus ; it is conceded that a red 
tinge is seen after the movement of light. 
Saturday, April 29. — Went to Inaccessible Island with 
Wilson. The agglomerates, kenytes, and lavas are much 
the same as those at Cape Evans. The Island is 540 ft. 
high, and it is a steep climb to reach the summit over 
very loose sand and boulders. From the summit one 
has an excellent view of our surroundings and the ice 
in the Strait, which seemed to extend far beyond Cape 
Royds, but had some ominous cracks beyond the Island. 
We climbed round the ice foot after descending the 
hill and found it much broken up on the south side ; 
the sea spray had washed far up on it. 
