After coming down to the glacier we passed around the western end of the nunataks, visited the front of the southern arm of the glacier and then a hanging - and - piedmont glacier near the latter and returned to ship. Base of northern mass and nunatax bar. 775 ft. making nunataks 500 feet high above plain. At western end of nunatak a long, narrow snowdrift descends to the plain from about '1/4 way up the rocky slope of the nunatak. This drift seems to have been formed prin- cipally by the snow driving down from the southern branch of the glacier under the southeast storms and then to have had its northern part deeply eroded by the hard snow driven against it by the northeast winds. The lower two thirds or three quarters of the drift is composed of ice or icy snow. This ice evidently has been formed by the snowdrift melting and setting under the influence of the summer sun. Bloeses of ice have fallen from the mass on the north side and are now surrounded by mroats in the snow of the plain.