After five hours the others arrived back.
They had covered ten miles, five miles out and five miles back.

During the afternoon we finished the cairn, which we have built to a height of eight feet.

It is a solid square erection which ought to stand a good deal of weathering, and on top we have placed a bamboo pole with a flag, making the total height twenty-five feet.

Building the cairn was a fine warming jab, but the ice on our whiskers often took some ten minutes thawing out.

To-morrow we hope to lay out the cairns to the westward, and then to shape our course for the Bluff." The weather, became bad again during the night.