The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . f up toomuch, while there are draughts of air if one opens the bagunduly. Violent gusts shook our tents, and the snowdriftrattled down upon them. In the morning this snowdrift and the exceedingly heavyweather prevent us from starting. It is not until 11 oclockthat we can get off. We have put on one sledge about 200kilos of provisions and instruments. We shall take this asfar as possible and come back to sleep at the camp, whichwe leave standing. So we push forward north-eastward,a
The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . f up toomuch, while there are draughts of air if one opens the bagunduly. Violent gusts shook our tents, and the snowdriftrattled down upon them. In the morning this snowdrift and the exceedingly heavyweather prevent us from starting. It is not until 11 oclockthat we can get off. We have put on one sledge about 200kilos of provisions and instruments. We shall take this asfar as possible and come back to sleep at the camp, whichwe leave standing. So we push forward north-eastward,all six harnessed to the sledge and shod with surface of the glacier is smooth enough and withoutcrevasses, but the extreme sharpness of the slope in placesand still more the thick covering of soft snow make our advanceextremely slow and difficult. It is snowing and the windiskeen. We have to send one of the party on ahead in takes a hundred steps, stamping down the snow, andlhen conies back to harness himself to the sledge, whichadvances along the path thus made. In this fashion our224. AUTUMN, WINTER, AND SPRING, 1900 journey is long. At 4 oclock, we are about 750 metres up,at the foot of Middle Mountain. A tablet of chocolate anda half-pint of lemonade restore us a little, and then, leavingour sledge behind and putting on our skis, we glide down theslope on our way back to the camp. At this moment a breakin the weather restores calm to the elements and brings backour good spirits. The soup is put on the fire and soon swal-lowed, and then we sleep, while a little sleet, mingled withrain, rattles on the tents. Next day, September 20, we rise at 6 The weatheris calm and clear, despite some mist. At 8 oclock, the sunappears. The thermometer marks — 4°. Owing to the diffi-culties of sledging, caused by the state of the snow and theslope of the ground, I decide to leave here a portion of ourprovisions, the place being well marked out by Senouquesbear
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