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of the crater, and it is doubtless of the type known as Pele's hair.

Gran made his escape from the steam cloud on the western side of the mountain, and so was able to get a good view of the Western Mountains, and believed he could see a range stretching back and cutting across the plateau at about the latitude of Granite Harbour.

We then returned slowly to camp, collecting as we went, and arrived in about 9.30 a.m., to find that Hooper's feet had recovered and that Abbott had collected a fine lot of specimens.

After our return to camp we rested in our bags for a few hours, and then struck camp and glissaded down the 2000 feet till we rejoined Debenham and Dickason, covering in a few minutes a distance that had taken us three or four hours on our upward way. During our absence the latter had made good use of their time, finishing the survey of the old crater and collecting from moraines left by an ancestor of the crater glacier.

We spent the night camped here, and the next morning proceeded on our way down the mountain, using ice axes in rope grummets at the after end of the sledge as brakes and making such good way that the same day we picked up all our depôts, and camped within striking distance of Hooper's Shoulder, as we afterwards named the Southern Nunatak, in time for a late lunch.

In the afternoon Debenham, Abbott, and Hooper and I walked over to the shoulder, photographed it and collected from it, and by 6 p.m. we were back in camp.

The final descent was delayed until the 16th by bad