However, men and dogs enjoyed the exercise.

A sounding gave a depth of 2400 fathoms, with a blue mud bottom.

The wind freshened from the west early the next morning, and we started to skirt the northern edge of the solid pack in an easterly direction under sail.
We had cleared the close pack by noon, but the outlook to the south gave small promise of useful progress, and I was anxious now to make easting.

We went north-east under sail, and after making thirty-nine miles passed a peculiar berg that we had been abreast of sixty hours earlier.

Killer-whales were becoming active around us, and I had to exercise caution in allowing any one to leave the ship.