This ice proved to fringe the pack, and progress became slow.

There was a long easterly swell with a light northerly breeze, and the weather was clear and fine.

Numerous bergs lay outside the pack.
The 'Endurance' steamed through loose open ice till 8 a.m.on the 11th, when we entered the pack in lat.

59ｰ 46ｴ S., long.

18ｰ 22ｴ W.We could have gone farther east, but the pack extended far in that direction, and an effort to circle it might have involved a lot of northing.