titt] COMFORT OF DOUBLE TENT 527 
Monday, January 1, 1912. — New Year's Day. Lunch. 
Bar. 20'04. Roused hands about 7.30 and got away 9.30, 
Evans' party going ahead on foot. We followed on ski. 
Very stupidly we had not seen to our ski shoes beforehand, 
and it took a good half-hour to get them right ; Wilson 
especially had trouble. When we did get away, to our 
surprise the sledge pulled very easily, and we made fine 
progress, rapidly gaining on the foot-haulers. 
Night camp 54. Bar. 19*98. Risen about 150 
feet. Height about 9600 above Barrier. They camped 
for lunch at miles and went on easily, completing 
1 1 '3 (gco.) by 7.30. We were delayed again at lunch camp, 
P.O. Evans repairing the tent, and I the cooker. We 
caught the other party more easily in the afternoon and 
kept alongside them the last quarter of an hour. It was 
surprising how easily the sledge pulled ; we have scarcely 
exerted ourselves all day. 
We have been rising again all day, but the slopes are 
less accentuated. I had expected trouble with ski and 
hard patches, but we found none at all. (T. - 14 0 .) The 
temperature is steadily falling, but it seems to fall with 
the wind. We arc very comfortable in our double tent. 
Stick of chocolate to celebrate the New Year. The 
supporting party not in very high spirits, they have not 
managed matters well for themselves. Prospects seem to 
get brighter— only 170 miles to go and plenty of food left. 
Tuesday, January 2.— T. - if. Camp 55. Height about 
9980. At lunch my aneroid reading over scale 12,250, 
shifted hand to read 10,250. Proposed to enter heights 
in future with correction as calculated at end of book (minus 
