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Updated: May 8, 2025
If he goes on like this he comes into practical politics again, and I am arranging to give 10-feet sledges to him and Chinaman instead of 12-feet. Probably they will not do much, but if they go on as at present we shall get something out of them. Long and cheerful conversations with Hut Point and of course an opportunity for the exchange of witticisms.
For us the interval between the two rises, some 8 miles, was steady plodding work which we might keep up for some time. To-morrow I'm going to march half a day, make a depot and build the 10-feet sledges. The second party is certainly tiring; it remains to be seen how they will manage with the smaller sledge and lighter load. The surface is certainly much worse than it was 50 miles back.
During lunch I decided to try the 10-feet runners under the crossbars and we spent three hours in securing them. There was no delay on account of the slow progress of the other parties. Evans passed us, and for some time went forward fairly well up a decided slope. The sun was shining on the surface by this time, and the temperature high.
10 P.M. The job of rebuilding is taking longer than I expected, but is now almost done. The 10-feet sledges look very handy. Did not get to bed till 2 A.M. Obs.: 86° 55' 47'' S.; 165° 5' 48'' E.; Var. 175° 40'E. Morning Bar. 20.08. Monday, January 1, 1912. NEW YEAR'S DAY. Lunch. Bar. 20.04. Roused hands about 7.30 and got away 9.30, Evans' party going ahead on foot. We followed on ski.
Then, in a moment, as some leading strand gives way, the whole mass falls smothered, bruised, and crushed to be left for a month and more before the fires destroy the faded relics of the erstwhile gloriously rampant jungle. In all this the lawyer cane is the most aggressive and hostile. Not only are there prickles on the 10-feet thongs, but the leaves and leaf-sheaths are thickly beset.
That didn't take long, but the process of building up the 10-feet sledges now in operation in the other tent is a long job. Certainly P.O. Evans is the most invaluable asset to our party. To build a sledge under these conditions is a fact for special record. We lose half a day, but I hope to make that up by going forward at much better speed.
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