We permitted ourselves a little feast here in 82deg..  The “chocolate pudding” that Wisting served as dessert is still fresh in my memory; we all agreed that it came nearer perfection than anything it had hitherto fallen to our lot to taste.  I may disclose the receipt:  biscuit-crumbs, dried milk and chocolate are put into a kettle of boiling water.  What happens afterwards, I don’t know; for further information apply to Wisting.  Between 82deg. and 81deg. we came into our old marks of the second depot journey; on that trip we had marked this distance with splinters of packing-case at every geographical mile.  That was in March, 1911, and now we were following these splinters in the second half of January, 1912.  Apparently they stood exactly as they had been put in.  This marking stopped in 81deg. 33’ S., with two pieces of case on a snow pedestal.  The pedestal was still intact and good.

I shall let my diary describe what we saw on January 18:  “Unusually fine weather to-day.  Light south-south-west breeze, which in the course of our march cleared the whole sky.  In 81deg. 20’ we came abreast of our old big pressure ridges.  We now saw far more of them than ever before.  They extended as far as the eye could see, running north-east to south-west, in ridges and peaks.  Great was our surprise when, a short time after, we made out high, bare land in the same direction, and not long after that two lofty, white summits to the south-east, probably in about 82deg.  S. It could be seen by the look of the sky that the land extended from north-east to south-west.  This must be the same land that we saw lose itself in the horizon in about 84deg.S., when we stood at a height of about 4,000 feet and looked out over the Barrier, during our ascent.  We now have sufficient indications to enable us without hesitation to draw this land as continuous —­ Carmen Land.  The surface against the land is violently disturbed —­ crevasses and pressure ridges, waves and valleys, in all directions.  We shall no doubt feel the effect of it to-morrow.”  Although what we have seen apparently justifies us in concluding that Carmen Land extends from 86deg.  S. to this position —­ about 81deg. 30’ S. —­ and possibly farther to the north-east, I have not ventured to lay it down thus on the map.  I have contented myself with giving the name of Carmen Land to the land between 86deg. and 84deg., and have called the rest “Appearance of Land.”  It will be a profitable task for an explorer to investigate this district more closely.

As we had expected, on our next stage we were made to feel the effect of the disturbances.  Three times we had now gone over this stretch of the Barrier without having really clear weather.  This time we had it, and were able to see what it actually looked like.  The irregularities began in 81deg. 12’ S., and did not extend very far from north to south-possibly about five kilometres (three and a quarter miles).  How far they extended from east to west it is difficult