No open water could be seen from the mast-head, but there was a slight water-sky to the west and north-west.

"This is the first time for ten days that the wind has varied from north-east and east, and on five of these days it has risen to a gale.

Evidently the ice has become firmly packed in this quarter, and we must wait patiently till a southerly gale occurs or currents open the ice.

We are drifting slowly.

The position to-day was 76ｰ 49ｴ S., 33ｰ 51ｴ W.
Worsley and James, working on the floe with a Kew magnetometer, found the variation to be six degrees west." Just before midnight a crack developed in the ice five yards wide and a mile long, fifty yards ahead of the ship.