cracks running from the Bluff to Cape Crozier, but my hope is that the danger does not extend beyond a mile or two, and that the cracks are narrower on the pony road to Corner Camp. If eight ponies can cross without accident I do not think there can be great danger. Certainly we must rigidly adhere to this course on all future journeys. We must try and plot out the danger line.[1] I begin to be a little anxious about the returning ponies.
I rather think the dogs are being underfed; they have weakened badly in the last few days—more than such work ought to entail. Now they are absolutely ravenous.
Meares has very dry feet. Whilst we others perspire freely and our skin remains pink and soft his gets horny and scaly. He amused us greatly to-night by scraping them. The sound suggested the whittling of a hard wood block and the action was curiously like an attempt to shape the feet to fit the finnesko!
Summary of Marches made on the Depôt Journey
Distances in Geographical Miles. Variation 152 E.
| m. | yds. | ||||||
| Safety | No. | 3 to 4 | E. | 4 | 2000 | ||
| 4 to 5 | S. 64 E. | 4 | 500 | 9.359 | |||
| S. 77 E. | 1 | 312 | |||||
| S. 60 E. | 3 | 1575 | |||||
| 5 to 6 | S. 48 E. | 10 | 270 | Var. 149½ E. |
- ↑ The party had made a short cut where in going out with the ponies they had made an elbow, and so had passed within this ‘danger line.’
