There was nothing for it but to start up the glacier again.

That was about seven o'clock in the morning, and by nine o'clock we had more than recovered our lost ground.

We regained the ridge and then struck south-east, for the chart showed that two more bays indented the coast before Stromness.
It was comforting to realize that we would have the eastern water in sight during our journey, although we could see there was no way around the shore line owing to steep cliffs and glaciers.

Men lived in houses lit by electric light on the east coast.

News of the outside world waited us there, and, above all, the east coast meant for us the means of rescuing the twenty-two men we had left on Elephant Island..