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The sledge ran on and jammed the span, so 
that the Alpine rope had to be got out and 
used to pull Lashley to the surface again. 
Lash ley says the crevasse was eighty feet deep 
and eight feet across in form U, showing 
that the word 1 unfathomable 5 can rarely be 
applied. Lashley is forty-four to-day, and 
as hard as nails. His fall has not even 
disturbed his equanimity. 
“In the afternoon, after sundry luxuries 
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 fifteen miles (geographical), 
seventeen and a quarter (statute). I knew 
that supper was to be a ‘ tightener,’ and 
indeed it has been — so much that I must 
leave description till the morning.” 
DR. E. A. WILSON, 
TO WIIOSK “SOUND judgment one and all appealed on matters little or great.” 
such as chocolate and raisins at lunch, we 
started off well, but soon got amongst 
crevasses, huge snowfield roadways running 
almost in our direction, and across hidden 
cracks into which we frequently fell ; passing 
for ten miles or so along between two road- 
ways, we came on a huge pit with raised 
The outlook confirmed previous inferences 
as to a more favourable approach to the 
Pole. 
“ 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, 
