CAPTAIN SCOTT’S OWN STORY. 
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ICE-PACK — A VIEW TAKEN FROM THE MAINTOP OF THE “TERRA NOVA. 
Between a storm and a storm the release 
from their long captivity came almost 
suddenly, and a little before midnight 
on the last day of the year Mount Sabine 
could be seen a hundred and ten miles 
away. Nineteen hundred and eleven was 
ushered in by a glorious day, when a man 
could read and bask in the sun at n p.m., 
and on January 2nd Mount Erebus, their 
fiery landmark, rose into view, though still a 
hundred and fifteen miles distant. 
The large island on which stand Mounts 
Erebus and Terror is roughly triangular in 
shape, its sides, from forty to forty-five miles 
long, facing north-east, south, and west. The 
northern apex, first reached, is Cape Bird ; 
steering to the left, or south-east, the eastern 
extremity of the island is Cape Crozier, where 
the great Ice Barrier comes -down to the sea, 
its front extending well over four hundred 
miles to the east. Steering to the west, the 
ship enters McMurdo Sound, between the 
island and the Western Mountains on the 
mainland opposite. At the southern ex- 
tremity of this side of the island is the long 
promontory of Cape Armitage, with Hut 
Point, where the Discovery wintered in 1902. 
From this some five miles of sea-ice leads up 
to the flank of the Barrier, which backs on the 
mountain range of the continent and spreads 
at its foot, and was to be traversed for nearly 
four hundred miles south till a gap in the 
soaring ramparts is made by the Beardmore 
Glacier. 
