We needed all the advantage that we could obtain from the higher latitude for sailing on the great circle, but we had to be cautious regarding possible ice-streams.

Cramped in our narrow quarters and continually wet by the spray, we suffered severely from cold throughout the journey.

We fought the seas and the winds and at the same time had a daily struggle to keep ourselves alive.

At times we were in dire peril.

Generally we were upheld by the knowledge that we were making progress towards the land where we would be, but there were days and nights when we lay hove to, drifting across the storm-whitened seas and watching with eyes interested rather than apprehensive the uprearing masses of water, flung to and fro by Nature in the pride of her strength.