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The exposed rock is very black; the brownish colour of the Cloudmaker has black horizontal streaks across it. The sides of the glacier north of the Cloudmaker have a curious cutting, the upper part less steep than the lower, suggestive of different conditions of glacier-flow in succeeding ages. We must push on all we can, for we are now 6 days behind Shackleton, all due to that wretched storm.
The expedition to the antarctic commanded by Lieutenant Ernest Shackleton must always be considered one of the most important among those fitted out for the work of polar research. Shackleton had been a member of the Scott expedition and therefore was well acquainted with the character of the work.
Most of what we know of Burke's life in Trinity College from 1743 to 1748 we gather from his letters to Richard Shackleton, letters of absorbing interest to any student of the growth of a great mind.
Again, Lieutenant, I fear me you will have the harder part of it." Shackleton repeated Scrope's own words in all sincerity, and hurried off to his post. Scrope was left alone in the guard-room. A vision of the trench, twelve feet deep, eight yards wide, yawned before his eyes. He closed them, but that made no difference; he still saw the trench.
To this scene of festivity and cheeriness Scott, Wilson and Shackleton returned on February 3, and though the last to open their letters they had the satisfaction of knowing that the Morning had brought nothing but good news.
Shackleton, a member of the late Sir George Baden-Powell's expedition to observe the eclipse of August 9, 1896; and similar records in abundance were secured during the Indian eclipse of January 22, 1898, and the Spanish-American eclipse of May 28, 1900. The result of their leisurely examination has been to verify the existence of a "reversing-layer," in the literal sense of the term.
"I have cause to. 'Inchiquin' and 'Teviot' those were password and countersign on the night which ruined me the night of January 6th two years ago." There was an awkward pause, an interchange of glances. Then Major Shackleton broke the silence, though to no great effect. "H'm ah yes," he said. "Well, well," he added, and laying an arm upon Scrope's sleeve. "A good fellow, Scrope."
Shackleton advanced towards the pole at the rate of twelve to eighteen miles a day. His small party was lost like small specks in the endless desert of ice and snow. Only to the west was visible a succession of mountain summits like towers and pinnacles. The men seemed to be marching towards a white wall which they could never reach.
Day, Nelson, and Lashly worked with the motor sledges; the newest motor frequently towed loads of 2500 lb. over the ice at a six mile an hour speed. The oldest hauled a ton and managed six double trips a day. Day, the motor engineer, had been down here before both he and Priestley came from the Shackleton Expedition. The former had a decidedly comic vein which made him popular all round.
The old church of Shackleton and its tower rose, close at his right, like a black shadow against the sky. It was a moonless night, but clear. By this time he had reached the low boundary wall, at the other side, that overlooks the wide expanse of Catstean Moor. He stood by one of the huge old beech-trees, and leaned his back to its smooth trunk.
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