The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-16

covered them.
Our camp that night lay in very
picturesque surroundings at a heighth
Iof 5000 feet. The glacier here was
narrowed In between the two $4,000
feet high mountains. the ~F'ridtjof
! Nansens and the don Pedro Christie
| pherson. From the bottom of the
glacier rose mount cole Englstad'-
la big snow cone 10, 500 feet high.
The glacier was very much broken
in this comparatively narrow pass.
4 The mighty crevices seemed to stop
us from going further, but it was not
SO serious as it appeared Our dogs.
which up to this time had covered a
distance Of about 1909 kilometers, the
last few days very hard work, ran
1 this day 35 kilometers, the ascent be-
ing $500 feet, an almost incredible
record.
1t took US only four days from the
barrier to get up on the vast inland
plateau. We camped that night at
1 height of lG,Soe feet. Here we had
to kill twenty-foar Of our brave conn
panions and keep eighteen, six for
each OF our three sledges.
We stopped here four days on ac-
count Of bad weather. Tired OF this
we set out on the 2Sth OF November.
On the Goth in a furious blizzard and
ing was to be seen, but we felt that
contrary to expectations we were 60
ing fast down hill. The hypsometer
gave US fall OF 800 feet.
The next day was similar. The
weather cleared a little at dinner
time and exposed to our view mighty
mountain range to the east, and not
far of, only for moment, and then
1t disappeared In the dense snow
drift. On the 29th 1t Gained down
and the sun shone, though 1t was not
the only pleasant surprise he gave.
In our course stretched a big glacier
running toward the south. At its
eastern end was the mountain range
going In southeasterly direction. OF
be had, 1t being hidden in the dense
fog. At the foot OF this glacier, the
Devils Glacier" depot for six days
was established, at 1921 degrees
south latitude. The hypsometer In
dictated 5000 feet above sea level.
On November 80 we began to climb
the glacier. The lower part of 1t was
Moreover, the snow bridges very often
burst. From our camp that night we
had a splendid view over the mountain
to the east. There was "Helmer Han
sens Summit" the most remarkable
of them all. 1t was $4,000 feet high
and covered with such broken glaciers
that in all probabilities no foothold
was to be found Oscar Wistings,'
"Sverre Hassels," and "Oiav HAN
lands mountains also lay here
beautifully illuminated in the rays o
tthe bright sun.
81 In the distance, and only Alternats
j ~ r. p, yiewsa IN the fex, arpeAre
from time TO time "Mount Nielsen
with its submits and peaks abo
$4,000 feet high.
!. We only saw the nearest surroun
, ings. 1t took us three days to 81
mount the DEVILS glacier, always
I misty weather.
On the list of December we le
/. this broken glacier. with holes an
erevlces without number, with it
height of 9.100 feet. Before us. looA
ing in the mist and snowdrift, like
frozen sea. appeared light. sIopint
ice plateau filled with small hum
mocks.
The walk over this frozen sea was
not pleasant. The ground under us
was quite hollow, and it sounded as
though we were walking on the bot
toms of empty barrels. AS 1t was, a
dogs We could not use our skis on
this polished ice. Sledges had the
| best of it.
The place got the name the Devils
Dancing Room" This part of our
march was the most unpleasant. On
December we got our greatest height,
according to the hypsometer and ane-
roid-10,750 feet at 81 degrees 40
minutes south.
On December we came out of the
bad weather. Once again the sun
smiled down on us. Once again we
caald get an observation. Dead
reckoning and observation were ex-
actly alike, sS degrees, So minutes.
1876 seconds south.
Before us lay an absolutely plain
plateau, only here and there marked
with tiny sastrugi.
In the afternoon we passed So de-
grees 80 minutes. tShackeleon's fur
therest south was S8 degrees, IS
minutes) We camped and establish
ed our last depot, depot No. 10. From