3 o6 SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [June 
moonlight, the air still and crisp, and the thermometer 
at -io°. Perfect conditions for a winter walk. 
In the evening I read a paper on ' The Ice Barrier and 
Inland Ice.' I have strung together a good many new 
points and the interest taken in the discussion was very 
genuine — so keen, in fact, that we did not break up till 
close on midnight. I am keeping this paper, which makes 
a very good basis for all future work on these subjects. 
(See Vol. II.) 
Shelters to Iceholes 
Time out of number one is coming across rediscoveries. 
Of such a nature is the building of shelters for iceholes. 
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We knew a good deal about it in the Discovery, but un- 
fortunately did not make notes of our experiences. I 
sketched the above figures for Nelson, and found on going 
to the hole that the drift accorded with my sketch. The 
