SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
[October 
life suits me well except the turning out at night ! three 
times last night. We were trying nose nips and face 
guards, marching head to wind all day. 
We reached Cathedral Rocks on the 19th. Here 
we found the stakes placed by Wright across the glacier, 
and spent the remainder of the day and the whole 
of the 20th in plotting their position accurately. (Very 
cold wind down glacier increasing. In spite of this 
Bowers wrestled with theodolite. He is really wonderful. 
I have never seen anyone who could go on so long with 
bare fingers. My own fingers went every few moments.) 
We saw that there had been movement and roughly 
measured it as about 30 feet. (The old Fcrrar Glacier 
is more lively than we thought.) After plotting the figures 
it turns out that the movement varies from 24 to 32 feet 
at different stakes — this is y\ months. This is an ex- 
tremely important observation, the first made on the 
movement of the coastal glaciers ; it is more than 
I expected to find, but small enough to show that the 
idea of comparative stagnation was correct. Bowers 
and I exposed a number of plates and films in the 
glacier which have turned out very well, auguring well 
for the management of the camera on the Southern 
journey. 
On the 2 1st we came down the glacier and camped 
at the northern end of the foot. (There appeared to be a 
storm in the Strait ; cumulus cloud over Erebus and the 
whalebacks. Very stormy look over Lister occasionally 
and drift from peaks ; but all smiling in our Happy 
Valley. Evidently this is a very favoured spot.) From 
