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hot, whilst the fan or wind playing on the carburetter 
tended to make it too cold. The trouble was to get a 
balance between the two, and this is effected by starting 
up the engines, then stopping and covering them and 
allowing the heat to spread by conductivity — of course, 
a rather clumsy device. We camped ahead of the motors 
as they camped for lunch. Directly after, Lashly 
brought his machine along on low gear and without 
difficulty ran it on to Cape Armitagc. Meanwhile Day 
was having trouble with some bad surface ; we had 
offered help and been refused, and with E. Evans alone his 
difficulties grew, whilst the wind sprang up and the snow 
started to drift. We had walked into the hut and found 
Meares, but now we all came out again. I sent for Lashly 
and Hooper and went back to help Day along. We had 
exasperating delays and false starts for an hour and then 
suddenly the machine tuned up, and off she went faster 
than one could walk, reaching Cape Armitage without 
further hitch. It was blizzing by this time ; a fine sight 
to see the motor forging away through the mist as the 
snow flew by. We all went back to the hut ; Meares 
and Demetri have been busy, the hut is tidy and com- 
fortable and a splendid brick fireplace had just been built 
with a bran new stove-pipe leading from it directly upward 
through the roof. This is really a most creditable bit 
of work. Instead of the ramshackle temporary structures 
of last season we have now a solid permanent fireplace 
which should last for many a year. We spent a most 
comfortable night. 
This morning we were away over the floe about 9 a.m. 
