So we dodged along to the west and north, looking for a suitable opening towards the south.

The good run had given me hope of sighting the land on the following day, and the delay was annoying.

I was growing anxious to reach land on account of the dogs, which had not been able to get exercise for four weeks, and were becoming run down.

We passed at least two hundred bergs during the day, and we noticed also large masses of hummocky bay-ice and ice-foot.

One floe of bay-ice had black earth upon it, apparently basaltic in origin, and there was a large berg with a broad band of yellowish brown right through it.