A spur of ice closed the entrance to the huge blue pool.

Hurley brought out his kinematograph-camera, in order to make a record of these bergs.

Fine long leads running east and south-east among bergs were found during the afternoon, but at midnight the ship was stopped by small, heavy ice- floes, tightly packed against an unbroken plain of ice.

The outlook from the mast-head was not encouraging.

The big floe was at least 15 miles long and 10 miles wide.