I considered that further search should be made in two
directions, the area north of Glacier Tongue, and the old depot off
Butler Point, and I made a report to Captain Davis to this effect.
On January 12 the ship reached a point five and a half miles east of
Butler Point. I took a party across rubbly and waterlogged ice to
within thirty yards of the piedmont ice, but owing to high cliffs and
loose slushy ice could not make a landing. The land-ice had broken
away at the point cut by the cross-bearings of the depot, but was
visible in the form of two large bergs grounded to the north of Cape
Bernacchi. There was no sign of the depot or of any person having
visited the vicinity. We returned to the ship and proceeded across the
Sound to Cape Bernacchi.
The next day I took a party ashore with the object of searching the
area north of Glacier Tongue, including Razorback Island, for traces of
the two missing men. We reached the Cape Evans Hut at 1.30 p.m., and
Joyce and I left at 3 p.m. for the Razorbacks. We conducted a search
round both islands, returning to the hut at 7 p.m. The search had been
fruitless. On the 14th I started with Joyce to search the north side
of Glacier Tongue, but the surface drift, with wind from south-east,
decided me not to continue, as the ice was moving rapidly at the end of
Cape Evans, and the pool between the hut and Inaccessible Island was
growing larger.
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