The sun did not set that night, and as it was concealed behind a bank of clouds we had a glow of crimson and gold to the southward, with delicate pale green reflections in the water of the lanes to the south-east.
The ship had a serious encounter with the ice on the morning of December 31.

We were stopped first by floes closing around us, and then about noon the 'Endurance' got jammed between two floes heading east-north-east.

The pressure heeled the ship over six degrees while we were getting an ice-anchor on to the floe in order to heave astern and thus assist the engines, which were running at full speed.

The effort was successful.

Immediately afterwards, at the spot where the 'Endurance' had been held, slabs of ice 50 ft.