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speaks of Glacier Tongue having broken away from MacMurdo Sound and grounded on the coast south of Dunlop Island. It will be interesting to see if it is still there. At midday we camped for lunch, and the hot tea and biscuit made a great difference to our marching. This was the first hot lunch we had had and we all appreciated it. Between 5 and 6 the pressure was very bad; not high, but jagged and continuous, bruising our feet. Luckily we had the iron-runner sledge. Wooden runners would have been torn to shreds. Camped at 6.15. Distance 8 miles. Dunlop Island in sight about 3 miles ahead.

October 31.—A lovely morning. The south-west breeze of the night had dropped and the day felt warm. We suffered the same painful surface until within a mile of Dunlop Island, when we reached a smooth surface. We lunched on the north side of Dunlop Island. After lunch we searched it for records, but found nothing. Priestley collected some specimens. Resuming our march we got on to smooth ice between Dunlop Island and the mainland and kept a good surface until we camped at 6.15, half-way across the 'Bay of Sails.' Distance 11 miles: Mt. Erebus rising to the height of several thousand feet.

November 1.—5 a.m. A fine morning with heavy clouds to the south. We had a good surface and made good progress. Priestley collected from Cape Gneiss and Marble Point. We lunched at the latter cape, and at 3.45 we reached Cape Bernacchi, where we collected the remainder of Taylor's depôt, three-quarters of a tin of

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