The run southward in blue water, with a path clear ahead and the miles falling away behind us, was a joyful experience after the long struggle through the ice-lanes.

But, like other good things, our spell of free movement had to end.

The 'Endurance' encountered the ice again at 1 a.m.on the 10th.

Loose pack stretched to east and south, with open water to the west and a good watersky.

It consisted partly of heavy hummocky ice showing evidence of great pressure, but contained also many thick, flat floes evidently formed in some sheltered bay and never subjected to pressure or to much motion.