5 tent came adrift in a gust, and, although it was chased to the water's edge, it disappeared for good.

Blackborrow's feet were giving him much pain, and McIlroy and Macklin thought it would be necessary for them to operate soon.
They were under the impression then that they had no chloroform, but they found some subsequently in the medicine-chest after we had left.
Some cases of stores left on a rock off the spit on the day of our arrival were retrieved during this day.

We were setting aside stores for the boat journey and choosing the essential equipment from the scanty stock at our disposal.

Two ten-gallon casks had to be filled with water melted down from ice collected at the foot of the glacier.
This was a rather slow business.

The blubber-stove was kept going all night, and the watchmen emptied the water into the casks from the pot in which the ice was melted.