While in this course they picked up sledge- tracks, and, following these, they found a route down to the sea-ice.
Mackintosh decided to depot the sledge on top of a well-marked undulation and proceed without gear.

A short time later the three men, after a scramble over the cliffs of Hut Point, reached the door of the hut.
"We shouted.

No sound.

Shouted again, and presently a dark object appeared.

This turned out to be Cope, who was by himself.