Thursday 26th October 1911, We Hear The Motors Are Having Great Difficulty With Smooth Blue Sea Ice
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Up at 5.30. Writing, and a fine calm sunny morning.
We have the sun above the horizon all the 24 hours tomorrow and soon the weather should begin to settle down. We have had more than our share of wind and blizzard lately.
We hear this morning from Hut Point that the motors have been having great difficulty with smooth blue sea ice and in places have only managed about a mile in five hours. So eight of us started off to help them over this ice by hauling.
We took two tents and our sleeping bags and expected to find the motors off the Glacier Tongue, i.e. in about 6 or 7 miles, but we actually overtook them in about 14 miles, i.e. about a mile off Hut Point, as they had got on to snow covered ice again and were once more going a very good speed, Days’ car sometimes going well on its high gearing at 3 miles an hour with a ton and a half of stuff. Lashly is driving the other car, but can’t go quite so fast.
However, as they both overheat and have to stop periodically to cool down, they keep together pretty easily. The great difficulty is
to balance the overheating of the air cooled engines against the cooling down of the carburetter.
We camped and had lunch off Hut Point and then it came on to blow and drift so we saw both motors as far as Cape Armitage and then all our party and the motor party came in for the night to Hut Point where Meares and Demitri cooked us supper—and we spent a very comfortable time.
