If it had not been for our smoked goggles we should have suffered from snow-blindness.

Despite the expectation of trouble with which we began this march, we were agreeably disappointed.

On the upward journey, all this region had been covered with young ice, and we thought it reasonable to expect open water here, or at the best that the trail would have been obliterated; but there had not been enough movement of the ice to break the trail.

So far there had been no lateral--east and west--movement of the ice.

This was the great, fortunate, natural feature of the home trip, and the principal reason why we had so little trouble.