The weather continued fine and calm, and as the ridges drew nearer and the western coast of the island spread out below, the bright moonlight showed us that the interior was broken tremendously.

High peaks, impassable cliffs, steep snow-slopes, and sharply descending glaciers were prominent features in all directions, with stretches of snow-plain over laying the ice-sheet of the interior.

The slope we were ascending mounted to a ridge and our course lay direct to the top.

The moon, which proved a good friend during this journey, threw a long shadow at one point and told us that the surface was broken in our path.

Warned in time, we avoided a huge hole capable of swallowing an army.