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After Christmas a permanent camp was established on Cape Adare and we were divided into three watches, one of which was always stationed on top of the cape to look out for the ship. During one of these watches Priestley and Dickason walked ten miles south along the cape, to find out whether, in the event of the ship not picking us up, it was possible for us to make our way south this way. They report the cape to reach a height of 4200 feet at its highest point, and from there they were able to get a good view of Warning Glacier and consider that it would be impossible to make an extended journey in this direction.

On the morning of January 4 Browning sighted the ship and signalled us on the beach below by hoisting a flag as arranged, and two days later all our gear was aboard and we were on our way to try our fortune two or three hundred miles farther south along the coast.

January 8, 1912. p.m.—This evening Pennell and I from the crow's nest saw open water behind the heavy pack we had been working through all day. I had given up hope of being able to land at Evans Coves, and talking it over with Pennell had just decided to come down in the ship and pick up Debenham first, when we saw the open water, and by 9 the same evening we were secured alongside the sea ice about 1½ miles from the piedmont, north of Evans Coves. It was a lovely evening, and with the help of the ship's people we soon had our outfit on the piedmont by a big moraine, where we had arranged to make our depôt, and be picked up by the ship on February 18.