The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-03
seals ana pensu'ns provide ample

fresh food
The Terra Nova made good pass
age under sal to Nsw Zealand
waters encountering u heavy storm
on March IS, which lasted three days,
but caused no damage beyond wasii-
ing away the starboard life boat
(SiGned H. l.. PESNELL
Incomplete Report.
AS the Campbell or northern. party
were not picked up. only an lncou
i plete report of their movements
could be gwen.
! They landed at Cape Adare on Feb
ruary l3. 1911, the ship sailing the
following night. Their hut was com
pietcd on March ;, with only one In
terrupton from gale. It's site was
the middle OF the Adele penguin rooiS-
cry. which occupies very dry spot
on the morane and extends far up the
i mountainsde, The hut was TINS sur
| rounded by countless numbers of pen
!, gums during the whole summer
i The iiTst blizzard OF hurricane force
was experienced on March 10, when
the thermometer broke, after recording
wind velocity of eighty-four miles
an hour
!. During the winter these severe gales
were not uncommon. They shook The
4 hut violently. aud oh one occasion tho
porch was blown away. Otherwise
II except for minor mishapa the hut
j stood well, being We'll supported by
ropes PASSED owed 1t and secured by
two buried anchors. Tho sea finally
froze over during the Inst week f.,
March. short sledGing trips were made
! on tins bay Il being intended to start
the main Journey at tho end OF Au-
/ gust over the fec toward Cape North
II y heavy blizzard. however. on Au-
: gust II took all the sea ice ont TO the
northward.
! The sea having refroxen, the party
left on September S. sladg!ng across
9 sea ice entirely. The very bad sur
. face nceessitatcd relay work and
: caused slow progress. West OF Cane
Barrow the thin sea ice was found
already cracking AS the coast here
2 affords no spot suitable for landing
or rctreating from beyond Cape Scott
viously about to go out again, the
: party were compelled 20 retire 10 Rob
| crtson Bay
The remainder OF the time until the
whole tee went from the bay Mt the
beginning of November was occupied
} In making sledging trips about tho
bay for collecting geological speci-
mems photographinG. surveying, etc
, The northern party were able to
make good geological collections. Dur
! ing the whole period OF occupying the
hut, continuous METEOROLOGICAL mag
taken, and they are simultaneous with
other observations taken by Lieutenant
, Evans.
: The party enjoyed excellent health
J throughout.
Western Party.
; The western geological party. CON
sisting OF Debenham, Wright and
Petty Officer Evans. in charge OF Grit
hths and Taylor. landed at Butter
. Point, below Farrar Glacier, on Jan
!, uary 81. 1911. A depot wac made at
Cathedral Rocks by January 81. They
then sledsed westward for miles and
down the glacier. entering a dry val
: icy. a snug camp was made in an
aioove thirty feet deep excavatcd by
the sun in the glacier. This alcove
shows tho tremendous melting power
OF the sun in these regions.
Twenty-four hundred feet above the
glacier Debenham discovered q distant
crater of the late glacial age, also la o
basalt flows eighty feet thick.
Fresh Water Lake.
a On February II slcdge party
& portrayed five days food further down
4 the snow-free dry valley to the sea
a They lived on cold food without dis
comfort FOR this period. A deep fresh
8 water lake four miles long. only sur
4 face frozen. was full of gravel, which
i was washed for gold, but only mag
4 netic was found.
The party returned down the Farrar
Glacier on February IS. While cross
ing New Harbor the ice on which
they were sledging commenced to fioat
out. A quick rush across tho crack
ing foe just brought the sledges to
fast Ice In time They then started
south for the Koettlitz Glacier. Their
: route up Middle Glacier lay over a
most difficult surface, they constantly
falling through thin ice into pools OF
water two feet below.
On February "a they reached tho
west coast OF Koettlitz Glacier. near
Head Island, through a fringe of ice
Subterrnnean Stream.
a week was spent in the Vicinity.
: They found that a large subterranean
: stream originated here and flowed
under the moraine and glacier for
, cd n well-used route for numerous
: seals. Their blow holes occurred at
intervals along Its course and there
, were several caves encountered with
. beautiful ice crystals. which were in
vestigated by Wright.
They returned from Koettlita Gla-
= cier along tho edge OF almost impene-
"a trable pinnacles of Ice northeast OF
/ Daley Islands. On March s they sud
/ denly emerged on an open water bay
I with newly formed thin Ice, which
4 forced them to enter the pinnacles
j 1t took two days to negotiate siA
4 miles OF this surface. after which they
Z were able to slcdge on sea Ice again
III A violent blizzard lasting forty
eight hours kept them camped on the
I edge of the barrier just where the
( Ice had broken out week before. Al
\ the first luli they made for Castle
4 Rock. crossing q promontory, and de-
4 scended to Discovery Hut on March
IA, having been out six weeks