I was waiting Wild's report with keen anxiety, and my relief was great when he told me that he had discovered a sandy spit seven miles to the west, about 200 yds.

long, running out at right angles to the coast and terminating at the seaward end in a mass of rock.

A long snow-slope joined the spit at the shore end, and it seemed possible that a "dugout" could be made in the snow.

The spit, in any case, would be a great improvement on our narrow beach.

Wild added that the place he described was the only possible camping-ground he had seen.