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We still carry out the brush routine every time we break camp, to clear away all the rime formed on the inner tent lining. The outer tent is extraordinarily free from frost—and remained so to the day we returned to Cape Evans. The lower skirts of the inner tent, however, are solid with ice.

Towards evening the wind abated considerably, and parts of Mt. Terror came into view, but during the night the wind came on again with much snow and violent gusts, increasing at times to force 10. We were unable to march. The min. temp. for the night was −7·6°.

Wednesday, July 12, 1911.—We were compelled to remain in our bags again all day. Wind from S.W., force 10, and squally up to force 9 all the afternoon, with much drift. Temp. up to +2·9° again in the morning. Towards night there were lulls, and at 3 a.m. the wind ceased. Bowers turned his bag from hair outside to hair inside, his first change since starting.

Thursday, July 13, 1911.—After digging out our sledges and tent, which were pretty deeply buried in drift, we had a really good day's march, making 7½ miles in 7½ hours with both sledges. [Seems a marvellous run.] During our march, in our effort to avoid the pressure ridges on our right, we got imperceptibly somehow too high up on to the slopes of Terror and were held up by a very wide crevasse with an unsafe-looking sunken lid, which we caught sight of in a momentary break of moonlight just in time to avoid it. We turned down its side and found it was one of a number that marked a low mound in the land ice slopes. We made out east again