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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
[May 
as a consequence they got frostbitten. There was lively 
cheering when they reappeared in this condition, such is 
the sympathy which is here displayed for affliction ; but 
with Wilson much of the amusement arises from his 
peculiarly scant headgear and the confessed jealousy of 
those of us who cannot face the weather with so little 
face protection. 
The wind dropped at night. 
Sunday , May 21. — Observed as usual. It blew from 
the north in the morning. Had an idea to go to Cape 
Royds this evening, but it was reported that the open 
water reached to the Barne Glacier, and last night my 
own observation seemed to confirm this. 
This afternoon I started out for the open water. I 
found the ice solid off the Barne Glacier tongue, but always 
ahead of me a dark horizon as though I was within a very 
short distance of its edge. I held on with this appearance 
still holding up to C. Barne itself and then past that Cape 
and half way between it and C. Royds. This was far 
enough to make it evident that the ice was continuous 
to C. Royds, and has been so for a long time. Under 
these circumstances the continual appearance of open 
water to the north is most extraordinary and quite 
inexplicable. 
Have had some very interesting discussions with Wilson, 
Wright, and Taylor on the ice formations to the west. 
How to account for the marine organisms found on the 
weathered glacier ice north of the Koettlitz Glacier ? 
We have been elaborating a theory under which this ice 
had once a negative buoyancy due to the morainic material 
