The icicles overhanging our cave were melting down in streams and we had to move smartly when passing in and out lest we should be struck by falling lumps.

A fragment weighing fifteen or twenty pounds crashed down while we were having breakfast.

We found that a big hole had been burned in the bottom of Worsley's reindeer sleeping-bag during the night.

Worsley had been awakened by a burning sensation in his feet, and had asked the men near him if his bag was all right; they looked and could see nothing wrong.

We were all superficially frostbitten about the feet, and this condition caused the extremities to burn painfully, while at the same time sensation was lost in the skin.