i 9 ii] THE BROKEN GLACIER TONGUE 411 
thence vvc jogged up the coast on the following days, 
dipping into New Harbour and climbing the moraine, 
taking angles and collecting rock specimens. At Cape 
Bernacchi we found a quantity of pure quart/ in situ y and 
in it veins of copper ore. I got a specimen with two or 
three large lumps of copper included. This is the first 
find of minerals suggestive of the possibility of working. 
The next day we sighted a long, low ice wall, and took 
it at first for a long glacier tongue stretching seaward 
from the land. As we approached we saw a dark mark 
on it. Suddenly it dawned on us that the tongue was 
detached from the land, and we turned towards it half 
recognising familiar features. As we got close we saw 
similarity to our old Erebus Glacier Tongue, and finally 
caught sight of a flag on it, and suddenly realised that 
it might be the piece broken off our old Erebus Glacier 
Tongue. Sure enough it was ; wc camped near the 
outer end, and climbing on to it soon found the depot 
of fodder left by Campbell and the line of stakes planted 
to guide our ponies in the autumn. So here firmly an- 
chored was the huge piece broken from the Glacier Tongue 
in March, a huge tract about 2 miles long, which has turned 
through half a circle, so that the old western end is now 
towards the east. Considering the many cracks in the 
ice mass it is most astonishing that it should have remained 
intact throughout its sea voyage. 
At one time it was suggested that the hut should be 
placed on this Tongue. What an adventurous voyage 
the occupants would have had ! The Tongue which was 
5 miles south of C. Evans is now 40 miles W.N.W. of it. 
