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made in for that mountain and soon got on hard, crevasscd, 
undulating ice with quantities of soft snow in the hollows. 
The disturbance seems to increase, but the snow to 
diminish as we approach the rocks. We shall look for 
a moraine and try and follow it up to-morrow. The 
hills on our left have horizontally stratified rock alternating 
with snow. The exposed rock is very black ; the brownish 
colour of the Cloudmakcr has black horizontal streaks 
across it. The sides of the glacier north of the Cloud- 
makcr have a curious cutting, the upper part less steep 
than the lower, suggestive of different conditions of glacier- 
flow in succeeding ages. 
We must push on all we can, for we arc now 6 days 
behind Shackleton, all due to that wretched storm. 
So far, since we got amongst the disturbances we have 
not seen such alarming crevasses as I had expected ; 
certainly dogs could have come up as far as this. At 
present one gets terribly hot and perspiring on the march, 
and quickly cold when halted, but the sun makes up for 
all evils. It is very diflicult to know what to do about 
the ski ; their weight is considerable and yet under certain 
circumstances they arc extraordinarily useful. Everyone 
is very satisfied with our summit ration. The party 
which has been man-hauling for so long say they arc far 
less hungry than they used to be. It is good to think that 
the majority will keep up this good feeding all through. 
Sunday, December 17.— Camp 39. Soon after starting 
we found ourselves in rather a mess ; bad pressure ahead 
and long waves between us and the land. Blue ice 
showed on the crests of the waves ; very soft snow lay 
