SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [June 
I must enter a protest against the use made of the word 
c glaciated ' by Geologists and Physiographers. 
To them a ' glaciated land ' is one which appears to 
have been shaped by former ice action. 
The meaning I attach to the phrase, and one which 1 
believe is more commonly current, is that it describes a 
land at present wholly or partly covered with ice and snow. 
I hold the latter is the obvious meaning and the former 
results from a piracy committed in very recent times. 
The alternative terms descriptive of the different 
meanings are ice covered and ice eroded. 
To-day I have been helping the Soldier to design pony 
rugs ; the great thing, I think, is to get something which 
will completely cover the hindquarters. 
Tuesday, June 6. — The temperature has been as high 
as + IQ° to-day ; the south wind persisted until the evening 
with clear sky except for fine effects of torn cloud round 
about the mountain. To-night the moon has emerged 
from behind the mountain and sails across the cloudless 
northern sky ; the wind has fallen and the scene is 
glorious. 
It is my birthday, a fact I might easily have forgotten, 
but my kind people did not. At lunch an immense birth- 
day cake made its appearance and we were photographed 
assembled about it. Clissold had decorated its sugared 
top with various devices in chocolate and crystallised 
fruit, flags and photographs of myself. 
After my walk I discovered that great preparations 
were in progress for a special dinner, and when the hour 
