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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [December 
running almost in our direction, and across hidden cracks 
into which we frequently fell. Passing for two miles or 
so along between two roadways, we came on a huge pit 
with raised sides. Is this a submerged mountain peak 
or a swirl in the stream ? Getting clear of crevasses and 
on a slightly down grade, we came along at a swinging 
pace — splendid. I marched on till nearly 7.30, when we 
had covered 15 miles (gco.) (17 J stat.). I knew that 
supper was to be a i tightener,' and indeed it has been — 
so much that I must leave description till the morning. 
Dead reckoning, Lat. 85 0 50' S. ; Long. 159 0 8'V E. 
Bar. 2T22. 
Towards the end of the march we seemed to get into 
better condition ; about us the surface rises and falls on 
the long slopes of vast mounds or undulations — no very 
definite system in their disposition. We camped half-way 
up a long slope. 
In the middle of the afternoon we got another fine 
view of the land. The Dominion Range ends abruptly as 
observed, then come two straits and two other masses of 
land. Similarly north of the wild mountains is another 
strait and another mass of land. The various straits are 
undoubtedly overflows, and the masses of land mark the 
inner fringe of the exposed coastal mountains, the general 
direction of which seems about S.S.E., from which it 
appears that one could be much closer to the Pole on the 
Barrier by continuing on it to the S.S.E. We ought to 
know more of this when Evans' observations are plotted. 
I must write a word of our supper last night. We 
had four courses. The first, pemmican, full whack, with 
